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Re: Update primary filre

Barbara,

Along the same lines, is there any reason that limits file processing hasn't been expanded to use externally described file fields?

-mark


At 4/24/09 01:54 PM, you wrote:
Douglas Handy wrote:
>
> Well, couldn't that just have been handled the same way you rename a field
> from an external format, even under RPG III?
>
> In my experience with look-ahead fields in the 70's, you typically only
> cared about a few fields at most and only list them under the ** I-spec, not
> the whole record format. Why couldn't the field rename columns be used to
> supply the new name?
>

That's a good point.

I can't guess at any other possible reasons for disallowing it. It's
possible that "they" had the same thinking as I just did.


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