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Alan,

My issue is that the current alpha field is left justified with trailing blanks.
Not converting well.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shore [mailto:ashore@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 8:00 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: Steinmetz, Paul
Subject: RE: Alpha to Numeric converion issue

Hi Paul
For SQL use decimal(field, 5, 0)
For RPG use %dec(field:5:0)

Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 7:56 AM
To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Alpha to Numeric converion issue

I'm extracting a value from source code.
The values range from "1 " to "99999", 5 alpha field.

I need the end result in a numeric field, 5.0 zoned decimal acceptable, packed preferred.
"00001" "99999".

Current process is within an AS/400 query.
SQL or custom RPGLE program our options.

Any thoughts from the group?

Thank You
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Paul Steinmetz
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