RE: packed field

It's packed in the PF. In the DDS, I use the REF for define.
Am I suppposed to unpack it in the program?

I am doing nothing to it in the RPG ILE program, it is just supposed to be
displayed after the user selected the record on the main
subfile listing.

> 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?
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:03 PM
>> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
>> 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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