*INPUTPACKED ignored for arrays ?

["Timothy Adair" <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an RPG IV pgm (not ILE) that is reading in an old QS36F 
program-described file.  This file has a "field" that is actually a 
30-element packed numeric array (7,0).  For records with valid data in this 
array, everything is fine; but I have some records with spaces (hex 
'4040404') in this array, and when it hits one of these, the program gives a 
decimal-data error (understandably so).

I have specified the compile option of FIXNBR(*INPUTPACKED) but the program 
is not fixing the data at input-time.  Does *INPUTPACKED not work for input 
arrays?  It seems to work for single fields.

And yes, I know, I need to fix the data.  I intend to but that doesn't 
guarantee I won't encounter more of these in this file (or other files). 
I'd like to nail down a viable solution now.  We will be converting to 
externally-described files eventually but for now this is the situation I 
have to deal with.

And yes, I have tried every conceivable combination of overlays & arrays to 
program around the problem.  Every attempt either wouldn't compile, or gave 
the DD error when run.

Me duele la cabeza!

Ayuda?