Re: Passing numeric fields to COBOL program

Howard,

In a message dated 98-06-10 10:35:41 EDT, you write:

> The sign is the 'F' part of your example, if it were a
>  numeric field vs. a date field, the first time any
>  arithmatic operation was done on the field the 'Fox' would
>  change to 'C' or 'D' depending upon the value of the result.
<<snip>>

Now _that's_ interesting!  I didn't know that DB2/400 had started using the
"C".  We transferred data from a mainframe to the /400 under V3R0M05, some of
which contained packed, unsigned fields that had the "C" in the sign byte.  It
took two days to figure out that, despite the fact that the file wasn't open
for update, the "C" was automatically converted to an "F" in the database when
the data was read -- immediately disabling our "position to" function in a
subfile against the same data (which still held the "C" value) on the first
invocation after data transfer!!!  Does this mean that the "C" would no longer
be converted in the latter instance?

TIA!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

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