Re: IBM's ADO provider and numeric fields

Peter,

You may be current on the CA service pack, but what about database PTF's?
Host server PTF's?

I have a fair bit of code that relies on the ADO provider, and I'm not
having any problems with conversion of numeric variables.

Perhaps you should place a call to IBM support on this.


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@MailAndNews.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 14:50
Subject: IBM's ADO provider and numeric fields


> Hi Everyone,
>
> Here we go again, at least if you saw my last episode. The problem is that
> IBM's ADO provider does not always translate numeric fields. Sometimes it
> works, sometimes it gives an error.
>
> I thought I had figured a workaround for the problem by changing my SQL
> statement from
>
>     SELECT * FROM PDOWD.RATEP
> to  SELECT RTCODE,RTDESC,RTAMT FROM PDOWD.RATEP
>
> However, when I added more fields after the RTAMT field,
>
>     SELECT RTCODE,RTDESC,RTAMT,RTGLNO FROM PDOWD.RATEP
>
> my VB program can no longer get the value for RTAMT (defined in the
physical
> file as packed 11.2). It gets the familiar "Invalid procedure call or
> argument" error. It occurred to me that maybe it could handle it if RTAMT
> was the last field in the select, so I tried
>
>     SELECT RTCODE,RTDESC,RTGLNO,RTAMT FROM PDOWD.RATEP
>
> and it worked. Then I tried rearranging the fields in the physical file,
and
> just for fun, threw in an extra amount field, so the file goes something
> like
>
>     RTCODE, RTDESC, RTGLNO, RTAMT1, RTAMT2
>
> with the values 1234.01 and 1234.02 for RTAMT1 and RTAMT2 in the 1st
record.
>
> Then I tried
>
>     SELECT * FROM PDOWD.RATEP
>
> and it got the correct value for RTAMT2, but for RTAMT1 it got
> 3094850098213450687247811042 which caused an overflow error since I was
> trying to put it into a Currency field.
>
> Is it really true that IBM's ADO provider for Win9x/NT has this blatant
> error in it? AFAIK, I'm on the latest CAExpress service pack, SF63638. Am
I
> doing something wrong? If so, it's sure not obvious what.
>
> TIA,
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax


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