Re: The target for a numeric operation is too small to hold the resul t (C G D F)

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

> I'm getting this error....  Is there an H spec to remove it, or do I
> use an error code to trap it.?

You don't trap it.  You fix your code so that it doesn't overflow.



>       All four of these variables, are defined ast 17,6  So I'm ok, if I
> have to drop accuracy after 7 places..

If your fields are 17,6, that means that the result of the calculation
exceeds 99999999999.999999.  If you use the old DIV/SUB/MULT/ADD op-codes,
what will happen is that the leftmost digit will be lost.  In this case,
that's a qty of 100 billion (or more) of something.

When they designed capability of doing expressions (i.e. EVAL) in RPG IV,
they decided that discarding the most significant digit would be a bad
idea, so they now give you the "target for numeric operation is too small"
error messaage so that you don't overlook losing 100 billion of something.

If you weren't expecting a number that large, you might want to check your
code -- something is wrong.   If you do expect to receive numbers larger
than 100 billion, you should expand your fields so that you don't get this
error.