Re: Strange issue maybe you can help me with Mark

Thanks. That reinforces my argument about how poorly the problem was explained.

I guess maybe I should have used a <sarcasm> tag for my comment about "0404", as I had actually inferred that was meant; although I did actually perform the search, just to be sure. I was mostly trying to subtly emphasize, sarcastically, that there is a huge difference between receiving "a 0404 error on the new field" and a receiving a RNX#### error message identifier which probably would have described the problem even better. I figured the text denigrating what was offered in\by the OP as a problem description would give that impression. I clearly failed.

Regards, Chuck

On 10 Apr 2013 08:42, Anderson, Kurt wrote:

I believe his reference to 0404 is not the error given, but what the
field contents look like.

In debug, I verified that the contents of the subfield appear to be
a slight variation on the hex value (x'40').

D ds_test DS
D subfield 6p 0

SUBFIELD = 040404.

CRPence Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:30 AM wrote:

If that understanding is correct, then using SQL DDL to create the
file being written-to would /fix/ the issue with the "second
program that is reading this file" and thus getting an error, and
thus would suffice to "avoid this issue" with the 2nd program
getting an error ;-)

I am still wondering what a "0404" error is. Seems nobody has ever
mentioned "0404" on the RPG list... according to search results.
The OP said that "I added a new field", but no mention was made of
the data type of the field. Odd how often so little is offered-up
about failing scenarios people are having, when they come asking
for help :-( And such informative subject lines too; those going to
the archives for help on similar issues sure are hopeful they have
found an appropriate message thread when they read those titles!

I think Rob's second point was his primary impetus in replying,
but I may be wrong about that.