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- From: adamsm@woods.ulowell.edu
- Subject: ABF/VIFRED How to expand field length?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.124859.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Lowell
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:48:59 GMT
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- HELP!! I'm running Ingres 5.0 under VMS 6.3 and have encountered a problem
- with ABF that I just cant seem to shake. A previous version of our database
- used the fields STREET1 and STREET2, both being of type C22. After
- demonstrating that this length was not enough, we upgrade the referencing
- table and screen to type C32, allowing us 10 more spaces in the street fields.
- All appeared well when saving the Vifred screen after being altered to reflect
- the changed street fields. The new table was created, with respective changes,
- and the old data moved into it. The new table was checked through QFB that it
- could indeed hold street lengths of C32. The whole thing compiled without a
- problem and appreared to work as flawlessly as before. The only hitch was that
- the VIFRED screen, showing that it was changed to allow C32 street names, when
- the application was accually run, would allow all 32 to be entered but would
- only update as if it were only C22 long (It would accually overwrite the
- following city fields with the 10 character overflow). Except for this
- problem, the entire application works normally. The previous table was deleted
- and I have verified that the one referenced actually contains the C32 fields
- (verified by QBF updates). The frame code has been recompiled although it has
- no reference in the code to field length. All I can think of is that there is
- some code in the application that is not being updated. I've changed and
- verified the table, the frame code, and the VIFRED screen. What else is
- there? Maybe I could do a force compile of the entire application to update
- any stray code that is not being changed, but I don't yet know how to do this?
- Anyone out there have any ideas? Even guesses are appreciated at this point.
- I thank you in advance for any help rendered as this seemingly simple change
- dosnt seen so simple any more....
-
- -- Michael Adams (U Lowell, Alumni Database Ingres Programmer)
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