Comments on: AS400 – Files http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-files/ Thu, 23 May 2013 05:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 15, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-files/#comment-99056 The Most-Watched IT Questions: November 15, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:24:14 +0000 #comment-99056 [...] 2. Rajeshece had a question about finding field values in AS/400 files. [...]

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-files/#comment-98634 tomliotta Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:47:42 +0000 #comment-98634 If a variable (a field) is not referenced in program instructions, it will not be brought into program memory. There is no need for program code to fetch fields that aren’t used, so the fetch instructions are not generated.

Set the DEBUG(*INPUT) H-spec keyword if you want to force all fields to be brought even if you don’t use them.

Post back if that doesn’t help.

Tom

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