RE: 370 data to AS/400

["Bill Fly" <billfly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Be careful with a packed decimal field being concatenated as part of a key
field!  One file may have 'C' plus sign and another file, or your program,
have an 'F' plus sign.  Therefore no match.
Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Al Barsa, Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:29 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: 370 data to AS/400
>
>
> At 05:09 PM 08/25/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am trying to restore data saved from a S370 to an AS/400.
> Unfortunately,
> >I can't make any sense of the packed data.
> >
> >Is there a parm I may have missed on the CPYFRMTAP command?  Any
> advise or
> >suggestions?
> By memory, 370/390/3090/(all that big behemoth shit) uses different
> conventions for the signed half byte in packed data.  The AS/400
> interprets
> this correctly, and updates it when handling any specific field.
>
> Math, sorting, etc. all works correctly.
>
> Be careful.  These systems are highly tolerant of decimal data
> errors, and
> the AS/400 is not.
>
> Al
>
>
>
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