SEG control statement

A SEG control statement defines segments that need changes before being loaded into an output database. You can specify up to 50 SEG control statements for each DB control statement.

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 SEG       oldname   newname   userexit  comments
                               CANCEL

Position

Description

1

Code SEG in the first three bytes to identify this as a SEG control statement. There must be a SEG control statement for each segment type that requires change before the segment type can be loaded into the new database. This field is required.

11

This required, left-aligned field is the name of the segment in the old DBD.

21

This is the left-aligned name of the segment in the new DBD. If this field is blank, the segment name in the old DBD (column 11) is used.

31

This field will contain one of the following codes:

userexit: This code is the left-aligned name of the user exit routine that gets control before inserting each occurrence of this segment type.
Blank field: Leave the field blank if a user exit routine is not used for this segment type.
CANCEL: Use this code if this segment type is not to be reloaded into the new database.

41

FABRRELD does not use this field. You can use it for comments.