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Jerry,

%DEC was introduced with V5R2.


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to use a program on a V5R1 system that I wrote and used for
years on a V5R4 system. However, during the compile I get an error:



RNF0327 30 2 The first parameter for %DEC or %DECH is not valid.



The line in error is:



work150 = %dec(value:15:0);



value is defined as 15a.

work150 is defined as 15p 0 decimals.



Like I said, I used %dec( ) in V5R4 to convert character expressions to
numeric values; was this ability something added after 5.1?

I guess I could use the "old" MOVE VALUE WORK150 method since all I'm
trying
to accomplish is convert an alphameric field, which is all numeric
characters, to a numeric field, anyway. But any other (more "modern")
suggestions would be welcomed.



Thanks.



Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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