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Subject: Four bytes field with bit manipulated
From: Chamara Withanachchi <chamaraw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:34:39 +0530
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Dear All

I have a 4 byte field which represent total length of a data in a message and the length is specified using bits.

When I move this 4 byte field to 1500 character field it drops some of data from original 4 byte field

Ex if my 4 byte field contains below
00000000 00000000 00000000 01110011

When I move this to 1500 character field this shows as
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001

I use free format RPG in 7.2 box any idea why this is happening.

Chamara.

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