How to numeric field from PD without sign in DYL?

raghavendra_p_sarvade · New User Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 32

Hello,

Can someone help on how I can move the value in a PD field into Numeric field without the sign in a DYL?

Eg : A is 8 byte PD field. B is 15 byte Numeric field
A = -1234
B should be populated with 1234.

Thanks,
Raghav

Terry Heinze · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:06 am

What is "DYL"?

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:26 am

Hello,

DYL-280 - now known as CA-Vision (iirc).

Terry Heinze · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:13 am

I guessed that, but I wish folks wouldn't abbreviate like that.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:36 am

Hi Terry,

I suspect that not everyone knows that the "name" they've learned is an abbreviation. And not only for this product

Makes it even tougher when the product gets "re-branded" and the product name changes - with no reference backward to any previous name(s). . .

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Bill Dennis · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:00 pm

You may not be able to eliminate the sign on the move. Check the EDIT CODEs for FIELD "B" and you may be able to display without the sign.

Bill Murrell · Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:23 am

Look in your manual for MOVE ZONE and MOVE NUMERIC.

IF you define a hex work field as long as your B field and it looks like this: VALUE X'F0F0F0F0...' then do a MOVE ZONE workfield TO B it will remove the sign.

Check the syntax of the MOVE statement as I am doing this from memory.