Re: %CHAR in RPGIV on V4R2

Bob wrote:
>IBM didn't "fix" %CHAR until V4R4 when that added numeric to the list of
>data types that it would convert to character. I believe there's a PTF
>for V4R2 to fix it there as well.

There's no PTF since there was nothing to "fix".  %CHAR in V4R2 works
as originally intended.  At the time, it was deemed sufficient that
numerics could be converted to character using %EDITC or %EDITW.

However, later we did agree with the suggestion that %CHAR should also
support numeric, and so we enhanced that built-in function in V4R4.
(Likewise, further enhancements were added to %CHAR in V5R1.)

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com