RE: The target for a numeric operation is too small to hold the r esul t (C G D F)

My value is a tax amount  = 0.123283

I'm guessing the number is somehting like .123283565564  but it won't fit..

Tim


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> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:26 PM
> To:   RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject:      Re: The target for a numeric operation is too small to hold
> the resul t (C G D F)
> 
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> > I'm getting this error....  Is there an H spec to remove it, or do I
> > use an error code to trap it.?
> 
> You don't trap it.  You fix your code so that it doesn't overflow.
> 
> 
> 
> >     All four of these variables, are defined ast 17,6  So I'm ok, if I
> > have to drop accuracy after 7 places..
> 
> If your fields are 17,6, that means that the result of the calculation
> exceeds 99999999999.999999.  If you use the old DIV/SUB/MULT/ADD op-codes,
> what will happen is that the leftmost digit will be lost.  In this case,
> that's a qty of 100 billion (or more) of something.
> 
> When they designed capability of doing expressions (i.e. EVAL) in RPG IV,
> they decided that discarding the most significant digit would be a bad
> idea, so they now give you the "target for numeric operation is too small"
> error messaage so that you don't overlook losing 100 billion of something.
> 
> If you weren't expecting a number that large, you might want to check your
> code -- something is wrong.   If you do expect to receive numbers larger
> than 100 billion, you should expand your fields so that you don't get this
> error.
> 
> 
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