RE: Decimal Data Error

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   6. RE: Decimal Data Error (Bob Cozzi)
>
>This isn't causing the DDE because you are basically assigning a value to
>the target field and its current content is being replaced.
>Think about it? Before we had the INZ keyword (that is back in the RPGIII
>before the "I" in column 18, and RPGII days) you had to assign a value to
>numeric subfield some how. Z-ADD was it, typically. So why wouldn't this
>code work without a DDE?
>-Bob Cozzi


I'm glad to see SOMEbody asking this question... I'd been thinking I should 
post a request for clarification but more kept getting added to the thread. So 
far, I've seen nothing that explains why Z-ADD should result in a DDE. An ADD 
is obvious, but Z-ADD???

There's a whole bunch of legacy Z-ADDs without INZ floating around out there. 
Are they all now at risk of random DDEs? Has something changed in what Z-ADD 
actually does? Maybe too many years have gone by and I'm not correctly 
remembering what Z-ADD does.

Tom Liotta

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