RE: Reade With a Packed Field

I concur with the mainframe sign idea.

If you were to use this field with the 'C' sign with arithmetic functions,
i.e., add, subtract, multiply, divide, the system treats it as a positive
number.

However, it may well be a whole different animal when it comes to using this
field as a key field.  The question is whether the compiler (?) sees the key
field as a numeric value or if it sees all key fields as a character or
hexadecimal value.  Numerically, x'123C' equals x'123F', but otherwise they
are unequal.

You'd probably get a better answer over on the RPG400-L list.  I'd guess
that Hans Boldt / Barbara Morris would be able to answer this in a second;
don't know if they wander over to the MIDRANGE-L list at all.

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Leisk, Andrew [mailto:aleisk@frpaper.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 3:54 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Reade With a Packed Field
Importance: High


Trying to remember back in my dinosaur days on a mainframe - I think that
"C" is valid instead of "F" as a positive sign for a packed numeric field on
a mainframe.  Seems to me I ran into a problem with this once about 7 or 8
yrs ago.  But darned if I remember any more how we solved it.  But "C" is
valid.
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From:   Leland, David[SMTP:dleland@Harter.com] 
Reply To:       MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
Sent:   Wednesday, March 15, 2000 1:11 PM 
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' 
Subject:        RE: Reade With a Packed Field 
Wouldn't that be considered invalid data?  I thought packed fields could
only end w/ "D" or "F". 
Dave 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bruce Odum [ mailto:Bruce.Odum@cbs.fiserv.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 1:17 PM 
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
Subject: Reade With a Packed Field 


Has anyone ever had a problem using Reade with a partial key and one 
of the keys is packed and the data in the packed field ends with a C 
and not a F? Any ideas on why this would not work? 
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