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Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.
And to be clear: I might be renaming
DCL-S MyField CHAR(1);
to be a field in a qualified data structure. The point is RDi should allow the new field name to be a subfield in a data structure.
Let's say I have a field called MyField that was originally defined like this:
DCL-DS MyDataStructure;
MyField CHAR(1);
END-DS.
And I changed the DS to be:
DCL-DS MyDataStructure QUALIFIED;
MyField CHAR(1);
END-DS.
When I try to rename MyField to MyDataStructure.MyField, RDi throws an error (as shown in the attachment).
Are you attempting to add the variable to an existing Data Structure?
I don't understand. Please show a code snippet for what you are thinking here to give some context. It already works for file fields, but not sure why you would want this for a standalone variable as you can already access a data structure subfield directly without having to redefine it.
I don't understand. Please show a code snippet for what you are thinking here to give some context. It already works for file fields, but not sure why you would want this for a standalone variable as you can already access a data structure subfield directly without having to redefine it.
Attachment (Use case): Error thrown by RDi when attempting to rename a variable into a qualified data structure.