This topic introduces different approaches to changing source file attributes.
If you are using the source entry utility (SEU) to maintain database source
files, see the ADTS for AS/400®: Source Entry Utility manual on the V5R1 Supplemental Manuals
Web site for information about
how to change database source files. If you are not using SEU to maintain
database source files, you must totally replace the existing member.
If your source file is on a diskette, you can copy it to a database file, change it using SEU, and copy it back to a diskette. If you do not use SEU, you must delete the old source file and create a new source file.
If you change a source file, the object previously created from the source file does not match the current source. The old object must be deleted and then created again using the changed source file. For example, if you change the source file FRSOURCE created in the Create an object using a source file, you must delete the file DSTREF that was created from the original source file, and create it again using the new source file so that DSTREF matches the changed FRSOURCE source file.