Re: Odd/Even packed numbers.

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Giuseppe

Can you put it out to 9 in the file but only 8 on the screen? Numerics in
DSPF cannot be packed.

1. If they are different names, no problem until 2052 (sort of a
millennium-plus problem ;-)   ), Just to the MOV ops as now
2. If the names are the same (hope not), you might be able to use the
based-on-REF-field idea and shorten it in the DDS for the DSPF.

HTH

Vern

At 11:29 AM 11/29/02 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> actually I have this RIDICULOUS problem:
>
> I'm working in a Bank and not in a barber shop, and I've been asked to give
> a technical answer to this question (and to decide). Maybe if I respond that
> this is a RIDICULOUS question, in the future I will probably have to ask the
> barber shop to give me a job.
>
> At present a certain field is 7.0 - and it must be enlarged because now -
> after 6 (six) years - it is going to become full.
>
> How much we should enlarge it? With 8.0 we can add more 90,000,000 items and
> it is enough for the next 50 years but it seems that there is an overhead
> (this field is part of  a key in other db for a total of  800,000,000 rcds).
> With 9.0 there is no overhead and no waste of space but we have hundreds of
> panels (especially subfile lines) and reports where one more byte cannot
> fit.
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