Re: SQLRPG Help

[Gary Guthrie <GaryGuthrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Did you miss my suggestion for this?

Gary Guthrie



Jim Langston wrote:
> 
> If you find a simpler approach please let me know, I have some files
> like this too!
> 
> And I think they way they "somehow long ago got into a field" is that
> they were S36 flat files at one time, right?  It seems that sometimes
> numbers in S36 would be written with leading spaces instead of 0's,
> or that's been my observation anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> JIm Langston
> 
> Mark McCarty wrote:
> 
> > I have a decimal data error that somehow long ago got into a field.  Is
> > there a way using sql toreplace the error with a 0.  When I try a simple
> > update it gives me an 802 error with type 6(data decimal).
> >
> > The way I am looking at is to copy all the records minus the field into
> > a dummy file and place a zero
> > into default zero in the bad field, update the non error fields with the
> > correct values and that would leave 0 in the bad records, then cpyf back
> > to the real file.
> >
> > Any suggestions on a simpler approach?
> 
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