Re: Decimal data errors

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Recreate the files with DDL rather than DDS so the validation is on the
WRITE, not the READ. Of course, then you have to change customer files.

On 11/28/06, James H H Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How about a MONITOR block around the statements that
> > access the suspect fields?
>
> But it's not happening when our program tries to *use* the
> fields (in fact, some of those fields get ignored by our
> program), but when the record is read.
>
> A MONITOR block would work, though, given that the
> programs in question are site-specific, and compiled on
> their box. But again, that presupposes it's applicable to
> the problem at hand, and I don't know enough about them to
> know one way or the other on that.
>
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