RE: packed field

Test the display file with SDA. If you can't see it, you may have a
space in the byte right next to the field that's giving you problems. 


Mark Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IBM Certified RPG Developer
Hainey Business Systems
(717) 771-2362
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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:32 PM
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Subject: RE: packed field

I am not sure, how would this be happening?
> Are you sure you're not writing a field in the attribute byte of the 
> packed field in the DDS?
>
>
> Mark Walter
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> IBM Certified RPG Developer
> Hainey Business Systems
> (717) 771-2362
> mwalter@xxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.hbs-inc.com
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> steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:03 PM
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> Subject: packed field
>
> HI I have a packed field, defined as 6 3.
> I mimic this description in the DDS ( it is to be displayed when the 
> user selected the record from the Subfile listing),
>
> There is data there but it is not displaying on the screen. For 
> debugging I put in a loop if the file has this field at 0, keep 
> reading the next record. This renders the subfile empty.
>
> I seem to be missing somthing.
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