Re: Reade With a Packed Field

>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:16:31 -0500
>From: "Bruce Odum" <Bruce.Odum@cbs.fiserv.com>
>
>Has anyone ever had a problem using Reade with a partial key and one
>of the keys is packed and the data in the packed field ends with a C
>and not a F? Any ideas on why this would not work?

Bruce,

This is a permanent restriction for RPG III, caused by RPG III handling
the key comparison itself, bytewise.  The problem also exists for key
fields defined with fancy features like ABSVAL, ALTSEQ etc (anything
that allows two keys with different values to compare as equal).

RPG IV doesn't have this problem since it does READE a different way
from RPG III.

Barbara Morris


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