re: external data area

At 12:24 AM 7/1/97, you wrote:
>I want one of the fields in a 57 character external data area to be
>numeric.  I can not figure out how to do that in CL.  It seems to be
>insisting on *CHAR only, no numerics.  Can I put numeric values in the
>data area?  say...  put a minus 3500 starting at postion 45
>
>     CHGDTAARA DTAARA(SMPLDA (45 4) VALUE(-3500)
>
>doesn't work.  Any ideas?

You can't put a numeric value in a character data area.  However, you can
change the numeric value into a character format, and then put into into
the data area.  However, you will lose the sign for a negative value.

Al



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