Re: Packed field with Blanks in it... how?

Nope, I was grasping at straws there.. I know it shouldn't but other fields
are being populated (as we can see in the dump). So Im just looking for
ANY way a numeric field can get blanks in it... and the only way I can
think is an overlaying DS. :)

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:25 AM Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So an unsuccessful read puts blanks in the field? That is weird. Is it
defined on some other record format?

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 9:16 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am helping a customer with a random problem where a field from a file
(packed 16,0) is getting filled with blanks.

On a dump we see hex 04040404040.... in it. And of course it's throwing

a

data decimal error.

I tried to look in the program for something obvious, but it's an old
monolith of a program with weird columnar RPGIII code.

Anyhow, in what instances would a field read from a file (or even an
unsuccessful read) that is defined as packed get blanks in it? The field
is not manipulated in any way that I can see.

If reads and no record, it should be zero. If it reads and gets a

record,

it should be the value from the file (in this case, confirmed to be

zero..

and even hex value shows 000000000000000F.

Just grasping at straws I guess. I've not seen this unless there is an
overlaying DS on a numeric field that gets set to blanks for some reason.

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