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Re: CPYF problem

One issue might revolve around negative zoned values. The right-hand byte has a different nybble for those. So it won't convert correctly to alpha. I think the best bet is SQL, with a CHAR function or the like to get what you want. Unless, of course, you have NO negative numbers in the zoned fields.

Vern

On 5/12/2011 4:01 PM, James Lampert wrote:
Gundermann, Glenn / Kuehne + Nagel / Tor ZI-A wrote:
Wouldn't FMTOPT(*NOCHK) do it?
I thought zoned and char would have the same length and values.
That's what I thought, too, until I learned otherwise.

As to FMTOPT(*NOCHK), the problem is that we have no way of knowing, in
the real world, if the other fields have been changed in such a way that
*MAP *DROP would be necessary to avoid garbling the data.

It looks like the real answer is to simply prohibit users from making
zoned-to-character changes in the file-redesign utility, the way we
already do so for character-to-zoned changes.

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JHHL

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