Re: Table Definitions DDS or SQL?

With CHGPF wouldn't you have to run that against each table with the 
modified field also?
Yes, but what I think you are saying is that you can't run a simple ALTER 
table and it automatically determine what fields have changed and handle 
accordingly.  That's true.  I suppose that you could write a simple 
program to read SYSCOLUMNS in QSYS2 and ALTER TABLE all those that are 
different from your reference table.  But there's a lot of people still 
lingering on the edges of the primordial swamp who name their fields 
different in every file which makes automation difficult.  I guess they 
find
IPROD
LPROD
TPROD
much more readable than
IIM.ITEMNUMBER
ECL.ITEMNUMBER
ITH.ITEMNUMBER
and think that the S/36 had too many characters allowed (6) for variable 
names and miss the early versions of PC basic where many people used 1 or 
2.

Granted you still run into issues with
MBM.ParentItem
and
MBM.ChildItem

Rob Berendt