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  3. September 2002

Re: v5r2 field length "enhancement"

Don wrote:

Hans, perhaps you can field this one.

With the 5.2 announcement I believe the max length of a numeric field in
RPG goes from 30 to 31.

Uh, why only 1 digit?  Why ONLY 31?

I did get a good laugh out of that today though....:)

We aim to please!  ;-)

I believe I discussed that one here a coupla weeks ago.  Basically,
there was some value returned by some API that was defined using a
31 digit packed field.  We couldn't remember the reason why R1 of
RPG/400 only went up to 30 digits, so we decided to go up to 31. Why
*only* 31?  Well, until the system supports more than that, that's
as far as we go.

Cheers!  Hans

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