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Re: How do I rename a record format in a RPG III program?

I found the problem

RDi does not like the underscore in the names and was producing error
messages when it should not have

Tried it in SEU and it worked normally

Thanks all

Darryl

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:46 PM Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Darryl, are you talking about long table names, not format names? I
thought format names were limited to 10, as Jon suggests.

But isn't the rename in RPGIII in an FK (I think) continuation format
source record?

Here's an example -

FMT ** ...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6
...+... 7
0048.00 FCKEMPEFFIF E K DISK
0049.00 F EMPLMSFM KRENAMEEMPEFFFM

HTH
Vern

On 8/29/2019 2:23 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
The simple answer is to convert it to RPGIV and use Rename.

Is that not on option? Why would you keep it in RPG III?

Regardless the RENAME keyword on the F-spec continuation line is
probably what you need. But since RPG400 can use 10 character record names
I'm having problems understanding why this is an issue. If the table was
created with SQL it will have short names for everything anyway.



On Aug 29, 2019, at 4:14 PM, dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have a few tabled with long format names and need to rename the
format for
use in a RPG III program.



I have tried all the I prompts but could not work it out.



TIA



Darryl Freinkel

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