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

As I understand it, and Barbara can certainly jump in (hint, hint), there
were perfectly good rationalizations at the time for how the B datatype was
implemented. A pain today perhaps, but reasonable in years past.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 5:33 PM James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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