Re: Renaming Fields in RPG400

There's no reason that this won't work as you desire.

Verify the record format name (PARMREC) is actually the record format name for the file SYSPARMS.
Verify that the long field names begin in column 21 and the new names begin in column 53.

Cheers,
Troy

-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Mason ; Jonathan Mason
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:15 AM
To: 'rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Renaming Fields in RPG400

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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