Initializing Data Records and Fields

You can initialize a single field or all the fields in a record. You might want to do this for testing purposes, or to reset a field or record that contains invalid data. Initialization replaces the data in the field or record, changing:

• Alphanumeric fields to all spaces
• Numeric fields to all zeros

Initialization does not affect conditions applied to fields by conditional record layouts, nor does it affect indexed record keys.