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Brian's example is right - you should never use the B data type for parameters described as BINARY(4) - that description actually means 4-byte integer - and that article suggests various use of the B type - ignore that, please!!

Vern

On 3/15/2023 11:34 AM, Brian Parkins wrote:
Assume you are dealing with an API call that has a parameter defined as BINARY(4). Check this out:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=concepts-data-types-apis

**Free
  Dcl-S PackedNumeric Packed(5:0) Inz(12345);
  Dcl-S BinaryNumeric Int(10:0);
    BinaryNumeric = PackedNumeric + 54321;
    *InLR= *On;
    Dump(A);

On 14/03/2023 22:38, dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I need help with coding this in a d-spec.


How does once do it on the d-spec and is there a simple way to translate a
binary size to a numeric size?


TIA


Darryl Freinkel

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