Re: CLEAR Opcode?

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John (and Dave)

At 12:11 AM 11/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>RE:    Re: CLEAR Opcode?
>
>>>Vern Hamberg wrote:
>>> I heartily recommend a product available at <http://WWW.CONN2000.COM>,
>>> called CVTILERPG. It does a lot more than the IBM-supplied CVTRPGSRC, and
>>> costs only $299 US.
>>>
>
>>There is a minor problem with this product.  If you use RPG's ability to
truncate
>>on the left on a numerical operation, this product may produce unintended
>>results, since it converts most numerical operations into EVAL op code.
>>Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net
>
>
>Thats right.  So if you MULT to convert dates or anything else where 
>you would get a decimal overflow.  With the EVAL,
>You would now get a CPF runtime error.

While the above is true, there is a parameter on the command to turn off
this part of the conversion, if need be.

As you said, Dave, this is a minor problem. Maybe contact the developer,
Bob Luebbe (who has appeared on the Java400 list) and see what he says. For
me, the benefits of the product far outweigh the minor inconveniences that
may exist.

JMHO

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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