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  3. January 2018

Re: Creating an SQL function from a service program

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/09/2018
11:29:56 AM:
Don't feel bad, IBM can't get their head out...

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/db2/rbafzch2num.htm

<snip>
Decimal
A decimal value is a packed decimal or zoned decimal number with an
implicit decimal point.
</snip>

Check out my comments at the bottom.


I knew I'd seen it somewhere in IBM's manuals where it treated
decimal and numeric in the same light -- just could find it. Thanks. ;-)


Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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