RE: data decimal error

Booth Martin wrote:

>I have a file with default values for the 
>user's screens.  It is designed as a 
>utility to work across the installation 
>and has a 1,024 character data field 
>for the values. 

-snip-

>However here's my problem:  Lets say 
>I add a value to an existing application 
>and add that value to the data structure.  
>This works just fine, so long as the 
>value isn't numeric.  If it is numeric I 
>get a data decimal error.   Is there 
>anyway within RPGIV that you can 
>think of that I can have a data decimal 
>error default to zeros for a particular 
>place and time?

One answer to this is to put a "version ID" on the data structure.  When you
read a different version ID than you expect, call a "version upgrade"
program to convert to the new version.

Compiling with FIXDECERR (RPG IV) might help, but I rather have code to
manipulate data rather than an unseen hand.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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