Re: Decimal data errors

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder if he could externally define the files and copy the data back 
to the externally described file?  Wouldn't that fix the errors?  I 
suspect all old programs would need to be recompiled, and perhaps 
adjusted, but in the end isn't the work to be done about the same?
Perhaps a compelling argument for management is that then the data can 
be available for WRKQRY and transfer to spreadsheets?
Peter Levy wrote:
> The decimal data failure at READ-time makes sense because that is when 
> RPG is moving the data to the fields in the program. The problem is if 
> you put a monitor around the READ it'll probably only copy a subset of 
> the record's data to your program's fields.
> I've worked at a couple of places where all programs using a library of 
> tainted files have to compile all of their programs using FIXNBR. It 
> sucks but when you have to read in tainted data there isn't much of a 
> choice. Of course I liked the old compiler's IGNDECERR parameter better. 
> You could create an RPG-III edit program using IGNDECERR that would run 
> through the file looking for problems and fixing them.
> James H H Lampert wrote:
> > "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> > > How about a MONITOR block around the statements that access the 
> > > suspect fields?
> > >     
> > But it's not happening when our program tries to *use* the fields (in 
> > fact, some of those fields get ignored by our program), but when the 
> > record is read.
> > A MONITOR block would work, though, given that the programs in 
> > question are site-specific, and compiled on their box. But again, that 
> > presupposes it's applicable to the problem at hand, and I don't know 
> > enough about them to know one way or the other on that.
> > --
> > JHHL
> >   
>
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