If the field is to drop is not defined to IMS, IS is not aware of the
change at all. If the field is defined to IMS, you should check why. It
might be a key or search field and shouldn't be deleted unless you change
the database definition, unload and reload the data. You should consult
your DBA and ask him to look into the DBD in question.

ITschak  


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Ron Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> We IMS DB in this we are planning to drop one of the fields  from one
> segment which is having 2 bytes and expand the adjacant field from the
> current 2 bytes to 4 bytes. We are modifying the programs for this, so
> kindly let someone let me know what things we need to take care  for the
> modified version of DB to be implemented in production?
>
> Thanks
> Ron T
>
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