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I am using SQL pass-through to create a hold file. In my TABLE FILE statement to put the fields into the hold file, I add formatting to the date fields (Month_End_Date/MDYY). This causes two copies of that field to appear in the master file for the hold file, both with the same name but each has a different format:
     
FIELDNAME=Month_End_Date, ALIAS=E22, USAGE=YYMD,
      MISSING=ON, $
FIELDNAME=Month_End_Date, ALIAS=E23, USAGE=MDYY,
      MISSING=ON, $ 

Only the first one shows up in the field listing in InfoAssist. If I try to remove the first one I get an error and the master file gets corrupted.
Anyone else run into this? I can get around it with changing the format of the field prior to the TABLE FILE statement, but it seems silly to have to add lines of code instead of just a few characters.

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Try putting this line ...
ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
before your ON TABLE HOLD line


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ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY

That worked! Thank you so much!
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