no you dont need to change existing records, however I would suspect that some program is already writing to what you think are new locations.

Basically the dict items were never defined.

create an I-type

REC.LNG

001 I
002 COUNT(@RECORD,@AM) + (@RECORD NE "")
etc

THEN

SORT file BY-DSND REC.LNG REC.LNG
to see the records with the maximum number of attributes.

this isnt 100% full proof since there may be some program out there that does write beyond the max # of attributes, however the logic in the program hasnt been triggered yet

Rich

Brutzman, Bill wrote:

At the bottom of a data dictionary having a few dozen D-Fields, I added a
few more D-Fields.

Inside a UniBasic application, end-users are able to read and write data to
these fields.

Sometimes though, when listing results, some flaky data shows up.

I am writing to inquire...is there now a requirement to "normalize" all
records such that there are "blanks" specified in the newly defined
fields...for all records ?

In other words, is it not ok to have a mix of records...some with 71
fields...others with 75 fields?

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