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  3. November 2006

Re: Decimal data errors

"Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
If all we were dealing with was EBCDIC spaces in numeric fields, and we were actually using all of the affected fields (and in particular, we're NOT accessing the zoned field that has packed data in it), that would make sense. 

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