Re: decimal data error (packed field?)

[Tim Truax <truax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
Thanks to all of you for your thoughtful replies.  This particular externally
defined DS is returned from a called program.  If the data that is supposed to
reside in the returned DS exists, it is cycled back, if the data doesn't exist
the DS comes back empty from the called program. And this is the problem.  I am
not sure that doing the initilization to zeros would work for every repetitive
call cycles, maybe I have to go to the source and just be sure the returned data
is initialized properly from the called program.

As for the size of the field you are all right.  A 3 byte packed will be
X'12345F', but it is just being z-add'd to a bigger field.  Sorry for any
confusion this caused.

Thanks again!
Tim Truax


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