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They're never going to change the way %DEC() works because %DEC creates a variable (under the covers) at compile-time. The system needs to what the size of the variable is at compile-time -- otherwise it'd have to compile a bit of your program at run-time, and that just isn't practical.

They might see your request and create a new BIF that's designed to format numbers in a more versatile way, however.

Though I wonder why you just don't write one yourself (it's not hard). Or use sprintf() to format your number... not that that would be quite as nice as having it built-in to RPG, but it'd get you past this hurdle a lot quicker.


On 4/7/2010 8:44 AM, Kurt Anderson wrote:
Vern, I had one all written up about %dec because I was had a need to
round the decimal precision based on a variable. But foolishly I had
entered in the requirement data before actually testing (I was going
off of memory of the BIF). Then I second guessed myself, and it was
the end of the day on Friday, and I had no way to "save" the request.
(In hindsight, yes I did, copy and paste each section to a .txt file
for the time being.)

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