Re: When did DB2/400 get 40-digit numbers? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: When did DB2/400 get 40-digit numbers?
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:47:20 -0400
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On 2023-10-10 7:22 p.m., James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

The file for which I was interested in generating SQL source (thanks, Javier) has something I've never seen before, and once I knew which haystack to look in, it just about jumped out at me, without my having to recreate the file locally:

It has a packed decimal field that's 40 digits long!

When did DB2/400 get 40-digit numbers?

They can be up to 63 digits. I'm not sure of the exact release, but it was around V5R3.

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Re: When did DB2/400 get 40-digit numbers? , James H. H. Lampert

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