Re: Outline view falsely reports zoned I-spec fields as packed

It is so weird when the original question turns up 10 minutes after I replied to Chucks response!! Just figured I’d missed your question Vern.

Your message must have taken the “pretty route” !!


Jon Paris

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On Oct 24, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just noticed, working in some old code, that when there is an I-spec that defines a zoned field (blank in the data type and a number in decimal places) that the field list displays it as packed.

I just saw this in 9.1, thought I'd turn off auto-update of Outline View, same thing, tried it in 7.6, same thing.

Now the default with no data type and decimals specified is zoned. Always has been. Et nunc, et semper.

Even odder - I have this code to test -

I have the following code:

FFLATFILE IP F 100 DISK

IFLATFILE AA 01
I 1 3 0FIR
I 23 24 0MO

At 7.6 of RDp (I think that was the name) this code results in FIR reported in the field list of the outline as packed (3,0) and MO as packed (2,0) -also wrong - that was "fixed" in 9.1 to say packed(5,0) and packed(3,0), resp.

In any case, NEITHER of these is the right rendering - both are ZONED fields.

At 7.6, even when I put an S in data type, it still said it is packed in the outline. That was "fixed" by the time 9.1 arrived.

But 9.1 is still wrong in that it does not recognize the default.

I don't know that I have an easy way to make a PMR. I certainly don't have direct access to it. So maybe someone can report this, please.
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