Re: Integer type in DDS PF? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Integer type in DDS PF?
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:51:53 -0500
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On 2019-09-16 10:46 PM, Birgitta Hauser wrote:

It is an Integer and can hold the complete range! It is RPG which converts
it (as well as the real integer values in SQL Tables) into packed.
Depending on the keyword EXTBININT the integer (9B 0) values are either
converted into 10P 0 or 11P 0 in RPG.

For RPG, the 9B values are interpreted as either 9 digits by default, or 10 digits with EXTBININT(*YES).

For an externally-described data structure, they would be either 9B or 10I. For the fields of a file that become standalone fields, they would indeed be packed.

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