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Re: igndecerr(*yes)

I am a fan, too, but in the days of MOVE and MOVEL, and numeric fields all having zero decimal positions in data files, these concerns seem esoteric.

But we are far astray.. Sorry folks.

On 9/17/2012 4:13 PM, Gary Thompson wrote:
Thanks, and please know I am one of your fans.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
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Subject: Re: igndecerr(*yes)

On 2012/9/17 3:29 PM, Gary Thompson wrote:
Ok, "stupidity" is a bit much,>if< you consider legacy systems some
businesses have depended on for a number of years.


Ok, I agree, a bit much. And maybe "ignorant" would have been better, but that word has taken on a new meaning (here, at least), often meaning more uncouth than unknowing.

But even back in the days when those legacy systems were written, I think there were better ways to handle bad data in some files than ignoring all bad decimal data, including parameter-mismatch between packed/zoned. Even in the short run, it might actually have been easier to avoid the errors by defining all the unneeded numeric fields than to debug the problems caused by ignoring decimal data errors.
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