TRANSFER Reference Manual

ALTER-ITEM-DESCR
TISERV UOW Descriptions
069139, Update 1 to 40969 Tandem Computers Incorporated 2–91
ALTER-ITEM-DESCR Operation
ALTER-ITEM-DESCR alters the fields in an item descriptor. This UOW selects for
alteration those fields chosen in FIELDS-TO-ALTER, and modifies them in accordance
with the information supplied in ALTERABLE-FIELDS.
If you do not issue this UOW for a package, the package is delivered by the
TRANSFER delivery system in accordance with default values assumed at package
creation.
If the item descriptor is not a package header item, ITEM-TYPE is the only field that
you can alter.
If the UOW requests updates of multiple fields and one of the alterations is illegal and
fails, none of the requested fields are updated.