From 3600924f9989a07e71e82f199cb775f272ea1969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:22:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] better guesses for wrong field names

---
 modules/database/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbLexRoutines.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/modules/database/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbLexRoutines.c b/modules/database/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbLexRoutines.c
index bbd5bac93..117f214ab 100644
--- a/modules/database/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbLexRoutines.c
+++ b/modules/database/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbLexRoutines.c
@@ -1209,7 +1209,15 @@ static void dbRecordField(char *name,char *value)
             double bestSim = -1.0;
             const dbFldDes *bestFld = NULL;
             dbCopyEntryContents(pdbentry, &temp);
+            const char* guess =
+                strcmp(name, "OUT") == 0 ? "INP" :
+                strcmp(name, "INP") == 0 ? "OUT" :
+                NULL;
             for(status = dbFirstField(&temp, 0); !status; status = dbNextField(&temp, 0)) {
+                if (guess && strcmp(temp.pflddes->name, guess) == 0) {
+                    bestFld = temp.pflddes;
+                    break;
+                }
                 double sim = epicsStrSimilarity(name, temp.pflddes->name);
                 if(!bestFld || sim > bestSim) {
                     bestSim = sim;