Re: Packed vs. Zoned

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:41:47 -0400
>From: "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@ttec.com>
>
>At 9/25/01 12:18 PM -0400, you wrote:
>>You can get your zero-decimal-position binary fields from external files
>>and data structures to be treated as integer (rather than 'B'-binary)
>>types by coding EXTBININT(*YES) in your H spec.
>
>  Is there any downside to this keyword (barring a rare reliance on the
>binary "rollover" value)?

I can't think of any downside, once you've got past the tricky part of
determining that you don't have one of those rare reliances.  (EXTBININT
affects fields defined as say 3B 0 in the DDS; presumably if you do have
a 3B 0, there was a reason for someone to have picked 3 and not 4...)

By the way, for the new (in V4R5, I think) 18B 0 DDS type, RPG always
assumes it's an integer, whether or not you specified EXTBININT.

Barbara Morris