RE: RPG-III to -IV conversion rehash worries - Part II

You may be right about EVAL.  I've never run an experiment to find the
answer.

Moving *BLANKS to a numeric will behave differently in RPGIV if the RPGIII
program was compiled with IGNDECERR(*YES).  Early versions of the RPGIV
compiler could only ignore decimal data errors in zoned fields.  Since we
made the jump from V4R1 to V5R2, I don't know when packed fields became an
option. 

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Hmmm.  I thought the numeric overflow was only affected if I converted to
use EVAL.  Will the date conversion trick bomb if I leave it straight from
the RPG-III style?  Just asking, but we don't have any of those type of date
conversions (all dates are converted with data structures - YUCK).

I don't think DDEs are an issue.  I'll have to check on *BLANKS and
numerics.  If there was a "MOVE *BLANKS   NUMBER" and NUMBER is numeric,
will the -IV compiler catch it?  Or will run-time act any differently than
it did under RPG-III?
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