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  • Subject: Re: IBM's ADO provider and numeric fields
  • From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:15:08 -0800

Hi John,

I'm developing this on Netshare TS400's AS400. I'm not authorized to look at
PTF's, so I have no idea. I plan to move this over the the customer's AS400
as soon as we have V4R4 + PTF's installed, so maybe that will help. Thanks
for the glimmer of hope<G>!

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Taylor" <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:51 PM
Subject: 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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