Re: *INPUTPACKED ignored for arrays ?

Hello, Timothy:

Since it is a program-described file anyway, why not define the file record layout as a series of packed fields, e.g.:

FLD1
FLD2
etc.

and define a data structure that allows you to overlay-define this record with the array? That way, you should be able to get the benefits of the RPG field validation on input, and still use the data as an array in the rest of the program.

Does that make sense?

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Timothy Adair wrote:

I have an RPG IV pgm (not ILE) that is reading in an old QS36F program-described file. This file has a "field" that is actually a 30-element packed numeric array (7,0). For records with valid data in this array, everything is fine; but I have some records with spaces (hex '4040404') in this array, and when it hits one of these, the program gives a decimal-data error (understandably so).

I have specified the compile option of FIXNBR(*INPUTPACKED) but the program is not fixing the data at input-time. Does *INPUTPACKED not work for input arrays? It seems to work for single fields.

And yes, I know, I need to fix the data. I intend to but that doesn't guarantee I won't encounter more of these in this file (or other files). I'd like to nail down a viable solution now. We will be converting to externally-described files eventually but for now this is the situation I have to deal with.

And yes, I have tried every conceivable combination of overlays & arrays to program around the problem. Every attempt either wouldn't compile, or gave the DD error when run.

Me duele la cabeza!

Ayuda?