Digitally signed e-mail was(Re: Internal numeric variable defined with LIKE Keyword off of external files)

Can we skip the digital signatures - it's unbelievably slow!!!

Joe Teff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Gombkötö" <Gombkoetoe@ASsoft.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: Internal numeric variable defined with LIKE Keyword off of
external files


> I had a similar problem several months ago; i posted this to
> news://comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc and received an answer from Barbara Morris.
> To be sure that your fields are defined exactly the same as in a db-file,
> one has to code an external described data structure.
> So my
>
> D pgmfield    S                like(dbfield)
>
> was replaced by
>
> D pgmdbds  E DS        extname(db-file)
> D                                     prefix(pgm)
>
> that seems to be the only way to tell the compiler that you *really
really*
> want the field defined the same as in the db-file. RPG loves the packed
> format too much to be convinced by a LIKE()....


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