Re: Numeric parameters between RPG programs

Pete,

At 10:45 PM 5/27/98 -0500, you wrote:

>I fought this on V3R1, but I thought this behavior had been changed. When
you defined a numeric variable with Like(), it was always assigned the
default (packed) storage type. You can confirm this in your program by
searching the field definitions at the end of the compiler listing for the
variable name. At least at V3R1, you couldn't specify the storage type on a
D spec that used Like(). It was a little maddening. I was forced to hard
code some field lengths so that I could specify the storage type <grrrr>.
So much for data independence. This was not considered a bug. I guess that
makes it a feature. I haven't tried it lately. Don't write much RPG any more.

 If I'm not mistaken, LKE() in the D spec works as it's supposed to.  It's
the C spec LIKE() that is skewed.

 -mark

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