Posted by Barbara Brazil on March 08, 2010 at 13:32:30:
In Reply to: Re: IMAGE files... going away? posted by Bob A on March 08, 2010 at 13:22:38:
Bob:
Pretty much. And I'm glad to hear you say "is it as simple as..." :-)
Obviously you'd want to do this when nobody was using the file. You'd do a READIMAGE on the record and a WRITE to the new file. While you're at it you might want to consider making it an extended keyed file and even possibly a multi-keyed file if that would be useful.
Also, when you're going thru your programs looking for I/O statements to change be sure to look for all the synonyms for READ/WRITE such as INQUIRE, UPDATE, EXTRACT, INSERT, REWRITE, etc. Better also look at all FORMAT statements used by the I/O statements in case they refer to specific record positions.
And, if you use The Reporter, you'll need to update #FILES and/or #CFILES.
bb
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