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Barbara....

I wouldn't normally question you but... :)

"The RPG and DDS B type is actually a decimal type"

I realized that the DDS B type allows one to specify a decimal
position of other than 0 (though I've never seen it used that way ;).

However, doesn't the DDS binary type (when decimal position = 0 )
support the full range of values that RPGLE integer would? Unlike
RPG's binary type?

Thus I've always considered DDS binary fields to be integers.

Am I lying to myself? Is there something DDS binary fields don't have
that true integer fields would?

Charles


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/18/2011 11:52 AM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
Isn't a B (binary) type defined as 2 or 4 or 8? The number of bytes? Not
the number of digits? I'd recommend 5i 0. That's what the Data Type
Compatibility chart says in the Run-Time Library Reference. Both int and
long int are 10i 0.


The RPG and DDS B type is actually a decimal type, with decimal
positions.  It's just stored as a binary. In RPG, it gets converted back
and forth to packed before it is used. So you can define a B-binary as 2
digits with 1 decimal place or 8 digits with 3 decimal places etc.

5B uses a 4-byte binary for storage, so for sure it isn't a match for a
short integer.

I think the 2B used in the SQL examples was probably a misunderstanding
probably caused by translating from the RPG III from-and-to positions
1-2B. It works ok though, and I think you could even get away with 1B
for the SQL indicator since anything from 1 to 4 digits means two bytes.
I agree that 5i makes the most sense.
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