Re: Beginner needs help w/ decim

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jason, as I see it, you've got two things going for you.

#1: Your company has given you free reign to use RPG-IV.  (That is not always
a given.)  Run with it!

#2: You have a very VERY obvious application that *screams* for you to use
RPG-IV.  One other requirement I saw that you listed was that the edited
number be left-justified.  If I remember correctly, the edit APIs do not
left-justify the blanks out.  In RPG-IV, you'd use the %trim BIF to do that.

And you're right, you probably won't find a bigger group of RPG-IV bigots
anywhere than right here! <g>

Unfortunately, if you're in a situation like 99% of all of us are, you're
probably maintaining a legacy RPG-III/400 system.  So you'll still have to
deal with that skill set.

But hey, that's what we're here for!

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952


On 10/19/2000 at 12:59 PM Bob Slaney/Atlanta/IBM wrote:

>You do know that you have RPG IV on your system, right?  All you have to do
>is make your program type RPGLE and you can code RPG IV and compile it.


Sheesh... judging from the reaction from the list members I should really be
 using RPG IV ;)

I don't know how.


I'm just teaching myself right now by reading other programs... the bulk of
 our programming (past and current development) is RPG/400 so that's what I'm
 learning.  I'm told that I'm free to use RPG IV... but in addition to
 learning everything I still have to get stuff done, and I've been able to do
 everything I need so far with what I'm using.  The real kicker is that
 everytime I need to look something up, all I have is an ILE reference manual,
 so I keep finding things that do exactly what I want - and I can't use them
 but know exactly what I'm missing  ;)


I think I'll make my next project my first RPG IV project....


Thanks a bunch for everybody's help... a few different solutions there (each
 of which taught me a lot - CPYTOIMPF, RPG IV, and APIs are all both new and
 useful to me)



(BTW... I've got a solution from another developer here which is similar to
 the one given by Joel Fritz that seems to work quite well)


Thanks,

Jason Waugh
Systems Development
COLLECTCORP, INC.
(416)935-2883
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