Righto.... I knew I said that badly.... I was just trying to
demonstrate the digit-counting business. In this case, signed or
unsigned, we deal with the same range of digits, so the demonstration is
valid, but misleading.
Thanks for clarifying...
Eric
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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 3:31 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: QWTSETPX - User Profile - and SYS/REQ Exit Point
Hello,
When IBM writes documentation for api's, they often refer to integer
values as Binary(4), meaning this should be a four-byte integer value.
Unsigned value ranges from 0 to 4,294,967,296.
Eric... when the API docs say BINARY(4) they are referring to a signed
integer, not an unsigned one. So the range is -2147483648 to 2147483647
The API docs will say "BINARY(4),UNSIGNED" when they want it to be
unsigned, and the range is 0 to 4294967295. (the highest value is 1
less than the one you posted.) In RPG, an unsigned would be "10u 0".
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