Nathan,
I kind of like that idea but was just concerned that someone could think they were updating the program for the new field and not get the right result but since you get the compile error forcing the record length to be correct then that is not an issue which is good.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:37 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Are level checks still useful?
Scott,
If you try to recompile the program after adding columns, you'll get an intuitive error. The compiler requires the record length on the "f" spec to match the record length on the corresponding "d" spec (extname). Use DSPFD to display the record length of the file, then put that value in the "f" spec.
But my reason for posting the code is so that others might experiment with the interface.
-Nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Mildenberger <SMildenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: Are level checks still useful?
Nathan,
Since you have the program ready, I was curious to what happens if you want the program to write the new field - so you add that but forget to change the record length on the file spec? Do you get any errors, or does the write ignore the added fields or ???? What happens if you set the record length to some large value such as 1000, does that cause any error.
Thanks,
Scott Mildenberger
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