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To see the packed data after you take a 5 on Work With Members, Press F10 and then F11. They will be in an over and under format, but you can read the numbers. On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:28:50 -0600, Karen Bellecci wrote: >I understand, in defining DDS, the numeric format best suited (default) to >AS400 is > >PACKED, while Zoned requires translation into and out of Packed for every >usage, > and >an ODD number of places, whereas an Even number requires 4x as many >instructions > >We have almost completely til now used ZONED numeric, but in the interests of >performance (doing things right) I would like to start using Packed Odd. I wonder if anyone implements this so far as to make all numerics Packed Odd? -- even an 8-digit date which we previously used as Zoned 8, and all the 2-digit fields we have in a business database. Are we asking for trouble? > >Of course I know we will have to use RUNQRY *NONE to see the data now, instead >of just Display (#5) on Work with Members using PDM screen. And I suppose there will be overflow warnings when these larger fields are moved to some smaller counterpart. But does anyone have a view on this? > >Thanks. Karen Bellecci > > >+--- >| This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com >+--- > M J Whitcomb System Administrator Valley Regional Healthcare Claremont, NH +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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