Re: Logical File with Field being substringed as a Key

Hi Debbie,

Check this link
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/v4r4eng.htm for a table
of allowed conversions. The answer is a qualified yes - you can convert a
character field in the physical file to a zoned decimal as long as you don't
change the length and as long as the character field is not a
variable-length field. Of course there's also the minor detail of making
sure the character field always has numeric data in it or you will get a
decimal data error when trying to use the zoned decimal field from the
logical.

hth
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: Debbie Panco <dpanco43@ix.netcom.com>
To: MIDRANGE <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Logical File with Field being substringed as a Key


> When using a logical files substring function, is there anyway to further
> define that substringed portion as numeric.  We have a situation where we
> sometimes want to pick some information out of a character field and use
it
> as input into a sequel.  We then often want to do calculations on that
> information.  If we could use the logical to redefine the alpha data as
> numeric, that would help immensely.
>
> Debbie
>
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