Maintaining Source Fields

Prerequisites

The source structures must have been defined before you maintain the source fields.

Procedure

You have the following options: You can create the source fields:

  1. From the list of steps, choose Maintain Source Fields. The Source Field screen appears.

  2. Choose Change.

  3. Position the cursor on the associated source structure if you want to define a field for the first time. For any additional field definitions, make sure to enter the new field below the original cursor position.

  4. Choose Start of the navigation pathCreate Next navigation step FieldEnd of the navigation path. A dialog box appears.

  5. Fill in the following fields:

    Field name

    Field texts

    Field length

    Field type: Character field, numeric field, packed field, or date field.

  6. Choose Continue.

You can also maintain source fields in table format:

  1. Position the cursor on a source structure or on a source field already created.

  2. Choose Table Maintenance.

  3. Enter the field name, type, length, and field description.

    If you enter the field name only and then choose Enter, the system will assign the following values:

    Field type: 'C'

    Field length: 10

    Field description in accordance with the field name.