Re:

I think you missed the main point though, Troy.

What happens if I move a 15,5 numeric field into an 8 char field?
It will take the left 8 characters for the number and throw the rest
away.  I suspect on a good day you are getting garbage in your 8 char
field.  Consider the date 6/15/01.
0000061501.00000
Move this to an 8 char and you take the left 8 digits.
'00000615'
That is not what you wanted.  

So, in your CL, you declare a holding variable as being 8 numeric and move
it into there first.
0000061501.00000
moved into 8 numeric becomes
061501
which is what you want.  In my programs that did this, I also then moved this
into my 8 char which gives me the correct var to pass
'061501'
although I think it would be perfectly fine to just pass the 8 numeric, I didn't
do enough testing at the time, I just wanted to finish the project (yeah, I 
know,
bad programmer, bad!)

Regards,

Jim Langston

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

Troy.C.Dills@blum.com wrote:
> 
> First, Thank You Scott for all your help. I think you deserve an ataboy.
> 
> PGMA uses a display file to get a processing date                             
>           PGMA = MSG7AB
>               then puts the date in a field (*note this is not a true date 
>field)
>               this field is numeric, length of 8.  Then we chgvar this field 
>into
>               &CPER so I can pass it to PGMB. (At this point &CPER is all
>               I'm concerned about) The SBMJOB is in PGMA.
> 
>              SBMJOB     CMD(CALL PGM(MSG7AE) PARM(&CPER &VPER &INCAID 
>&WSALL)) +
>             JOBQ(QBATCH) JOB(STC_OUT)
>      still at this point &CPER is 15 5
> 
> PGMB does my opnqryf, over rides then calls my main module                    
>  PGMA = MSG7AE =  module MSG7AECL and MSG7AE
>                I chgvar &CPER to &CALDT(8 char)
>               CALLPRC    PRC(MSG7AE) PARM(&CALDT &VALDT &INCAID
>                &WSALL &RECVR)
>      Here's where  you hit the nail on the head.
>      in my RPG module I have it set to receive at a length of 8 (char)  (and 
>get blanks for SCDATE)
>                 if I change it to a length of 8 0 then you hit the nail on 
>the head, I get a decimal data error.
> 
> I will try to use your logic to work around this problem. I'm just not quit 
>sure what gets passed, that light bulb will
> come on sometime afterwhile. Thanks
> 
> And to clear up those dirty minds out there, maybe I should have said (Have I 
>gone completely zonkers?)
+---
| This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---