Re: Reade With a Packed Field

Bruce,

In a message dated 3/15/00 1:35:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Bruce.Odum@cbs.fiserv.com writes:

> 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?

I read all the responses to this, but didn't really see a complete answer.  
If you'll check the archives, I warned about this quite some time ago (OS/400 
V3R0M05, to be precise) in dealing with mainframe data.  Back then, the 
AS/400 automatically converted "C" to "F" in RPG, thus causing problems using 
"position to" type functions in subfiles when they required reads against the 
database (don't know if this is still the case).  In mainframe parlance, a 
"C" indicates an unsigned numeric field, just as a "Z" edit code would in 
RPG...

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn." -- 
Andrew V. Mason
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