Re: Philosophical question...define table to be load from external data with integer or decimal fields...

Jim,

I'm confused, you say "as close to the incoming value" which would be
Packed/Zoned (5,0) but then say "so integer for me"

So which is it? :)

Charles


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would define it as close to the incoming value as possible. That way
you remove any complaint points from the sender if there is a problem
processing the file. I also would not trust the small integer constraint
so integer for me.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On 1/22/14 1:51 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

Philosophical question for you all...

I'm creating a new table to hold data received from an external source.

The specs given include

Name, Type/Length, Picture
MyFld, N/5, 9(5)

So MyField is a 5 digit number...

I could defined this as Packed/Zoned 5,0
Or I could use integer (or even small integer since the current number of
values is less than 1000)

Since I know DB2 and RPG for that matter perform best with integer, I'm
leaning that direction. But I can't help but think that Packed (5,0) is
more correct.

Thoughts?

Charles
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