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Note that Paul Conte's SQL/400 developers guide (pg. 192) says to use 5i0 for SQL NULL indicator
variables in RPG IV.

I submitted feedback for manual.

Charles Wilt
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Subject: RE: MCH1201 (Rcvr too small) on an _if_ statement???

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Subject: RE: MCH1201 (Rcvr too small) on an _if_ statement???

what value did Pet_Name_Ind have in it on error

Unknown. No dump was taken. But given that it's a 2B0, is there any
value that would be "invalid"? We can't think of one.


Actually there are lots of invalid values for a 2B0 varible.

2b0 is treated as 4b0 (two bytes), and 4b0 is _NOT_ the same as 5i0 (two
bytes).

5i0 has a range, -32768 to 32767
4b0 has a range, -9999 to 9999.

From the manual:
"If the length of the field is from one to four digits, the compiler
assumes a binary field length of
2 bytes."

"the highest decimal value that can be assigned to a 2-byte binary field
is 9999"

Should have said this before, Pet_name_ind is the null indicator (select
into :hostvar:nullind) from a sql statement.


I wouldn't expect to see garbage in it.

While the manual does say to use 2b0, does 5i0 work?

It's been a while since I needed the null indicator, but I don't recall
needed the binary data type.
My understanding is that anyplace Binary is used, Integer will work.


Charles



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