Re: Problem with dates while converting RPGIII to IV

Thanks,
omg I never even thought of that. I just got a tool and a lowdown from
another developer that helps with transferring the source to
development library and automatically converting any copybook stuff.
Plus a warning to watch out for dates!
Can you point me to anywhere where the MCH1210 errors are documented?
Preferably an IBM source?

2012/9/11 Martin Rowe <dbg400.net@xxxxxxxxx>:

On 11 September 2012 09:02, Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi all,

After converting an OPM, I have, for example, this :

C MOVEL WPLVDB IPLVDB

where factor 2 is 10A and the result field is date.

I have around 50 pgm to convert. Up till now, I've been testing and
when a program crashes I look in the compile list for date fields.

This is obviously not enough, I need to go through all the programs
and check all the statements involving date fields. Is there anyway I
can generate this information?
How should the line above be rewritten (bearing in mind I have orders
to make the minimum amount of changes!) ?

Hi Dave

We had a similar issue with field overflows caused by changing ADD/SUB
to EVAL as part of the conversion. I wrote a routine to extract field
definitions from the compile listing and then print an edited source
listing showing EVAL lines that potentially had an issue. Code is at
http://www.dbg400.net/foswiki/bin/view/DBG400/ChkEvals if you want to
try tweaking it to highlight date field usage on MOVEx lines.

Regards, Martin
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