Re: Numeric fields bug

Jason,

The 3164 emulator from PSI had the same bug in their early IP version.

As far as something to test with, You could create a small physical file DDS 
with
different data types and let UPDDTA build you a DFU program on the fly.

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:

>
> P.S. Where is there a signed numeric field in the system that I can test with?
> It can be pretty much anywhere in the operating system - I have plenty of
> access rights to our 400, but only because they know I'm not stupid enough to
> excercise them ;)
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:11:03AM -0500, Scott Klement wrote:
> > It appears that when you've got a signed numeric field, it allows
> > you to type any numeric character that you wish in the spot where
> > the sign should go.
> >
> > Other emulators don't let you type anything in that spot, the cursor
> > just sits there til you hit tab, field exit, field minus or some
> > other key that moves you to the next field.
> >
> > At any rate, if I type a number where the sign should be, the AS/400
> > will think that theres an I/O error with the terminal, and the
> > program that I'm running on the AS/400 will crash with a CPF message.
> >
> > This may be the same error that Sean Porterfield reported earlier,
> > I'm not sure... but it happens consistently when you type a number
> > where the sign should be...
> >
> > Thanks!
>
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