RE: Renaming Fields in RPG400

I second this approach
Any and every RPG III program that I have touched - no matter how small the change - I have converted to RPG IV immediately

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:10 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Renaming Fields in RPG400

I'd convert to RPG IV...

In fact, any RPG III program I have to touch gets converted to RPG IV.
It's silly not to do so IMHO.

But I suppose you could always rename the fields via a DDS logical.

Charles


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Mason
<Jonathan.Mason@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I am currently modifying an RPG400 program and need to read an
external file that, unfortunately, has field names longer than six
characters. I have tried renaming the fields in the I-specs, but get
compiler error
QRG4052 ("FIELD NAME EXCEEDS SIX CHARACTERS IN LENGTH AND IS NOT
RENAMED") as soon as the compiler tries to bring in the external definitions:

The section of code and errors look like this:

FSYSPARMSIF E K DISK
...
...
IPARMREC 01
I PARMFLD1 @KEY1
I PARMFLD2 @KEY2
I PARMFLD3 @KEY3
I PARMDATA @DATA

* 4052 PARMFLD1 FIELD NAME EXCEEDS SIX CHARACTERS IN LENGTH
AND IS NOT RENAMED.
* 4052 PARMFLD2 FIELD NAME EXCEEDS SIX CHARACTERS IN LENGTH
AND IS NOT RENAMED.
* 4052 PARMFLD3 FIELD NAME EXCEEDS SIX CHARACTERS IN LENGTH
AND IS NOT RENAMED.
* 4052 PARMDATA FIELD NAME EXCEEDS SIX CHARACTERS IN LENGTH
AND IS NOT RENAMED.

I have searched the net and the archives to no avail, all the examples
I find are either ILE or using field names of six or less characters.
I know I can convert the source to RPG IV or call an RPG IV program to
do the read, but was wondering if there is a way round this.

Thanks in advance

Jonathan


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