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  3. August 2002

RE: Fixing bad data in a numeric field

>Is there any downside to using this H-spec just as
>"preventative" medicine in our set of standard H-specs?
>>    H fixnbr(*inputpacked)

Aside from having RPG change your 'bad' data to zero, there is a tremendous
performance hit.  Each time a number is corrected, a message is written to
the job log.  So the program essentially 'stalls' while OS/400 logs the
error AND you get to fill up your job log at the same time!
  --buck

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