AW: TRUNCNBR(*Yes)

Hi Richard,

TRUNCNBR(*YES) works only for the old fixed format opcodes
that are not supported in RPG free format, such as Z-ADD, ADD, MULT, DIV and
MOVE.

In free format you'll always get the Error-Code 103.
You either have to use the old fixed format opcodes or a Monitor group to
handle the failure.

Birgitta

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Auftrag von Weber, Richard
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 16:10
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Betreff: TRUNCNBR(*Yes)


I'm trying to use this compile option in V5R1 compile of a free format
program.  I know: why do I want to put the number on the screen in a field
that's too small?  I don't, but the business analyst does because all the
old Cobol coded programs just truncate: Short story, I lost the argument.

Anyway, I put TRUNCNBR(*YES) in the H spec and the create command (belt and
suspenders approach).  I read the caution about it not catching the overflow
condition, if it occurs within an expression.  So I coded the following
lines:

V1 = HoldLYYTD/YTDDISDOL;
V2 = V1 * 100;
LYYTDDS = V2;

V2 is large enough to hold the result, LYYTDDS is smaller.  I still get a
"receiver too small" run time error on the LYYTDDS = V2; instruction.  There
shouldn't be anything going on within the expression since this is the
simplest instruction I can think of.  It's basically a move.  If TRUNCNBR
can't even handle overflow on a simple assignment instruction, what can it
do?


Richard L. Weber  |  Senior Systems Analyst, TOYS 'Я' US International  |
973.617.3497  |  weberr@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:weberr@xxxxxxxxxxx>



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