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The other devs here still have a death-grip on DSPPFM, so data that's not human-readable is always a fight. They've acquiesced for integer data, but for other numerics I have to stick with human-readable (ie. avoid packed).
I'm not sure it makes a huge difference to the OS, unless you're trying to wring the absolute most performance possible.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Vaughn [mailto:jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 9:46 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: new table development (decimal vs numeric)
In a 60/40 (RPG to Cobol) shop, with no new cobol development...
Aside from special cases where integer and float may be needed...
For common "numeric" data, what is the best standard data type definition, if choosing from decimal or numeric?
I do know decimal is packed and I have an "impression" that rpg is most compatible with packed and will convert to packed under the covers when needed. Not sure what I REALLY mean except that I would lean towards decimal being the best standard choice in an RPG shop.
What do you think?
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