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  3. October 2008

RE: Interesting question and debate on ddl tables with date fieldsthatwill not always have a value

I understand what Eric is saying about being able to use %nullind on
variables other than database fields. That would be nice.

And, perhaps this also has merit.
<snip>
Were you hoping that IBM had written the compiler so that if you tried
dsply termDate;
and if termDate was null then you'd get a messy MCH type message as if you
tried to dsply a variable that wasn't passed into the program and you
failed to check %addr on that?
</snip>

So how do you recommend IBM correct this?
Add an additional H spec to generate the abort?
Change the compilation default to generate the abort, with the additional
H spec to override it?

Rob Berendt

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