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  3. August 2020

Re: How do I retrieve the RRN of a PF or LF in a RPG program.

On 8/25/20 2:24 PM, Bruce Vining wrote:
Oh please, don't use the B data type, you (unless something in RPG has
changed) just made a mess of the RRN. Int is how IBM defines it and is how
the program should treat it.

Quite. As I recall, a "B" is only binary in a record within a file. Shocked my <E. asinius> across the room, the first time I got bit by that little "gotcha." What WERE they THINKING?

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JHHL

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