Re: Numeric value defined as 63 digits actually greater than 63 digits?

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Is it possible that it is looking at the field as packed (so the real field
has a digit more) ?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> This probably has an obvious answer ... but I'm only on my first cup of
> coffee ... so you'll have to take it easy on me.
>
> I've got a field defined in a qualified data structure that's 63 digits
> with 0 decimal positions ... but when I compile it, I get the following
> error:
>
>   447 D sequenceValue   DS                  qualified
>   448 D exists                          N
>   449 D start                         63  0
>   450
> *RNF0503 20    449 000142  Length of numeric item START is greater than 63
> digits;
>                            defaults to 63.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious ... but what is it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> david
>
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