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akodakka
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Joined: 20 May 2010 Posts: 75 Location: India
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Hi i have a field movement as below
Field-a S9(17) COMP-3 value zeroes.
Field-b s9(7) BINARY.
MOVE FIELD-A to FIELD-B
BUT i am not getting the values inside field-B instead i get a value +12345 moved into that...
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Bill Woodger
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Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 7309 Location: Inside the Matrix
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The data in FIELD-A is being changed in between the definition and the MOVE.
It is a really bad idea to attempt truncation with a MOVE to a binary field. If you need the truncation, MOVE the PACKED-DECIMAL/COMP-3 field to one which is defined in the same way and only has seven digits. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 3051 Location: NYC,USA
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You have not told us what is being passed and just saying what you get output won't help; Secondly, you need to search over to this forum to get similar links for the discussion which can help you by yourself like this
or this |
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