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  • Subject: Re: Ignore Data Decimal Errors
  • From: Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:25:39 -0500

On 03/12/99 02:11:59 AM Vanya Jovic  wrote:

>are you sure about this? I think that TestN works only with zoned
>numbers. In your example, AMLADChar would have just "character"
>represenatation of packed number, somethig like x"123456789F", which is
>BTW "undisplayable". TestN is looking for something like x"F1F2F3F4F5".

Vanja,
You are absolutely correct.  I should have mapped the packed AMLAD to a 
zoned field rather than packed.

D                 DS 
D  AMLAD                  1      9  0 
D  AMLADChar              1      9 

That's what I get for typing before testing!

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Inc (formerly CommSoft), Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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