Re: Outline view falsely reports zoned I-spec fields as packed

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barbara

To your comments below - yes, I understand that - my problem is that RDi 
does NOT understand that - it reports the length as 5 digits, not 3.

This isn't a problem with the code, that is all working as expected. It 
was just unnerving to see a really bogus length in the outline view.

In this case I did not define the field in D-specs.

Cheers
Vern

On 10/28/2014 2:48 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
> On 2014-10-25 10:50, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> > My main issue is that the RPG reference says that in an i-spec, if the
> > type is blank and decimals are specified, that it is zoned - now I
> > understand that this gets converted to packed.
> >
> > So if you have this
> >
> > myfile    ns  01
> >                                    1    3 0fld1
> >
> > then fld1 is zoned - but RDi 9.1 reports that it is packed 5,0 - it
> > should be zoned 3,0 - I do see that the compile listing says it is
> > packed 3,0 - NOT 5,0
>
> fld1 is zoned(3,0) in the input buffer.
>
> The program field, the actual "fld1" in your program that you can use 
> in calculations etc, will still be (3,0), but it might be packed, 
> zoned, binary, or integer. The specific internal format depends on 
> whether (or how) you code the field in D specs.