Re: RPGLE/400: Zoned Field becomes Packed !

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the standard behavior of RPG.  When it loads the fields from the
input buffer, it moves them to packed fields, since they perform better
than zoned.

If you want to change this behavior, you do this easily by defining a data
structure from the external description of the file, this'll force the
fields to be the same type they are in the DDS.

Example:
     FMYFILE    IF   E             DISK
     D dsMyFile      e ds                  EXTNAME(MYFILE)
          

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Mario Cardinale wrote:
> 
> i've a zoned field in a file, but when i compile the RPGLE that field
> becomes packed. Why ?
> 


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