RE: Packed Data in an Alpha Field???

["Smudski, Jeff" <JeffS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A couple of basic (read: not pretty!) ways to looks at data in hex mode:
1. DSPPFM (you were on the right track, but you have to hit F10-Display
Hexadecimal).
2. CPYF FROMFILE(filename) TOFILE(*PRINT) OUTFMT(*HEX)  -- this gives you a
printout of the records in both character and hexadecimal format.

Neither of these gives you fieldnames, so it's difficult to read.  But, the
info you're looking for is there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robertson, Scott [SMTP:SRobertson@dpsciences.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 4:33 PM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Packed Data in an Alpha Field???
> 
> I have a file that seems to have packed data being written to an
> alphanumeric field.  Is there any way to "view" the data in this field?
> 
> 
> I've tried viewing the data through DBU, but it just shows the data as
> little squares...the same as viewing it through DSPPFM.  I've tried
> creating an RPG program that moves the data from the alpha field to a
> packed numeric field, but I get a decimal data error.
> 
> I'm hoping that by viewing the data in this field, that I can figure out
> what program is actually writing the data to the file.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Scott S. Robertson
> Information Systems Manager
> Data Processing Sciences Corp.
> Srobertson@dpsciences.com
> http://www.dpsciences.com
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