Re: Field Type 'P' in a query

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The terms "flat file" and "externally-defined" don't usually go together in 
my mind, although they can. As Dan asked, what is the data type of the 
source? Is it a single character field? What is the formula you are using, 
if you are using a result field? If the source is character and needs to be 
substrung and then converted to numeric, this is hard in Query/400 but 
doable-you can use the MICROSECOND function - can tell you more if you need 
this ugliness. You'd be better off using an SQL query in a *QMQRY, using 
STRQMQRY with OUTPUT(*OUTFILE). What release of the OS are you at?

Vern

At 01:01 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
> The source file is a flat-file, externally-defined.  The target file has a 
> packed field.
> Dan Bale wrote:
>
> > When you said COMP, I thought you were talking COBOL, and comparing that to
> > P-type field.
> >
> > Defining a packed field in query?  Let me ask, is this an externally-defined
> > file you are querying?  It sounds like you might be dealing with a
> > "flat-file" with no external definition and, so, you have packed data in a
> > long character field you need to extract.  Is that it?
> >
> > Otherwise, I have no idea why you need to explicitly define a packed field.
> >
> > db
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