# Initialising new fields in ADALOD **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-on-Mainframes, Adabas-Utilities-on-Mainframes\ **Created:** [January 17, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/initialising-new-fields-in-adalod/95968 "2011-01-17T21:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rambo09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@rambo09](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/rambo09)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/initialising-new-fields-in-adalod/95968/1 "2011-01-17T21:57:58Z")
Hi, I have a rather large dataset and I am adding 4 new fields. One of the fields needs to be initialized to N. Can I do this through ADALOD and a user exit. ---
**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/initialising-new-fields-in-adalod/95968/2 "2011-01-19T05:21:35Z")
No. ADALOD adds or deletes records. It does not modify existing records. (Of course, you could unload, decompress, update the data records, recompress, reload, but I suspect that’s not what you were asking.) It probably is easier just to do the ADADBS/NEWFIELD then run a program to to a READ PHYSICAL / UPDATE (with ET’s periodically). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/initialising-new-fields-in-adalod/95968/3 "2021-04-02T14:59:40Z")