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Simon Coulter skrev den 30-08-2008 00:12:
I don't know why without seeing the SQL statement and the COBOL code but I do know what so maybe that will help:

On 30/08/2008, at 12:16 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:

A 009120
ZONED(5,0)

**INVALID DATA
'4EF0F0F0F1'X

The problem is caused by the leading X'4E' which is a ) in EBCDIC.
Really? My colleague said it was a "+" in code page 277 (which is what we use) but it explains why it croaks. Would a "+0001" be a valid number and ")0001" not so this is a code page problem (in addition to the prepending sign).
And by the way - I think that the AS/400 way of sending an inquery message and me actually being able to get useful info out of the generated spool is vastly superior to the typical Unix way of autistically just dumping core :)


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