Re: date type field test

[Tim Truax <truax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christina,
A 6 byte zoned-decimal field is only 6 complete (zone/digit) bytes.  But a 
packed
field at 6 bytes is really able to accommodate an 11 position numeric field.
--
:-) Tim & Dana Truax (-:


CHRISTINA GONZALEZ wrote:

> Hi,
> I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but I've noticed that if you 
>try do
> a *MDY MOVE where you are moving an L-date field into a 6-numeric field, I 
>get an
> error saying the 6-numeric date is not big enough to hold the field.  But, if 
>I
> make sure that the 6 numeric is packed and not zoned, it works fine.
>





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