Re: Using SQL UDF in SQLRPGLE program gets decimal data error

["Peter Dow" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alexei,

Why would you say that?  NUMERIC is for packed decimal, and DECIMAL is for
zoned decimal near as I can tell from the manuals, so using NUMERIC
should've worked just fine if the UDF was expecting packed-decimal.  But
using it from STRSQL got a decimal data error.

When I create the UDF using DECIMAL, it can be called from STRSQL just fine.

But for sure the debugger is only showing 5 bytes when I would expect it to
be showing 8.

Peter Dow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexei Pytel" <pytel@us.ibm.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Using SQL UDF in SQLRPGLE program gets decimal data error


>
> It looks like it confirms my guess that UDF expects packed decimal data.
> This is consistent with debugger showing only 5 bytes for data (vs 8).
>
>     Alexei Pytel
> always speaking only for myself