Re: will dds alias keyword cause level checks?

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  The DDS keyword ALIAS is omitted from the list of attributes which do 
*not* impact the Record Format Level Identifier:

IBM i 7.1 Information Center -> Database -> Programming -> Database 
programming -> Managing database files -> Changing database file 
descriptions and attributes
_Effects of changing fields in a file description_
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/dbp/rbafoecffd.htm

  That documentation does not match my experience however.  However 
what the ALIAS was was immaterial AFaIK because the non-SQL languages 
did not have the ability to refer to those names as compiled.  I 
understand that may no longer be the case for the RPG; I wonder if there 
is an impact, and the names are still not part of the hash.?

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improperly formed.  The proper form is a line starting with dash dash 
space with no other characters on the same line; i.e. presumably the 
"---Dale" preceding the long signature was intended to denote the start 
of the signature-data.

Regards, Chuck

On 15 May 2012 12:13, dale janus wrote:
> I want to start adding alias names with nice, long, clearly
> understandable names. We are dabbling in DDL, but most of our stuff
> is DDS. But we are moving to SQL and exporting files as spreadsheets,
> so nice clear column names is a good thing.
>
> I must add the alias in DDS because system I navigator only allows me
> to change the short name, which I do NOT want to change since that is
> what RPG uses.
>
> I am afraid I will get level checks on my rpg programs if I use
> chgpf pointing to the new DDS with aliases.
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny level checks before I jump in?