| Title: | FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS |
| Moderator: | ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE |
| Created: | Thu Feb 19 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 615 |
| Total number of notes: | 1779 |
I'm having a great deal of trouble getting focus to translate
a signed quadword. The file is an external RMS file and the datatrieve
definition of the field goes like this...
datatype is signed quadword
.
.
picture is 9(7)V9(4)
Datatrieve and BASIC programs can both access this field OK, but
I've tried several FOCUS actual/usage combinations but none of them produce
anything like the value displayed by DTR and BASIC.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks in advance,
Peter F. Gray
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85.1 | F4 with RDB | MAMIE::PETROPH | Thu Jun 30 1988 08:15 | 8 | |
The following works using RDB, not sure how it will do
with RMS.
FIELD=GROSS_AMT ,ALIAS=GROSS_AMT ,USAGE=D18.2 ,F4 ,$
Rich...
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| 85.2 | Meanwhile... | RDGCSS::GRAY | Home by the C | Thu Jun 30 1988 12:44 | 10 |
And the answer is...
in the User Manual Supplement (Rel 1.3)
- I8's are not mentioned in the "basic" User Manual (Rel 1.0)
use I8 and I8.x for a picture 9(7)V9(x) quadword
- I hope this will save someone (like me) a lot of time and effort.
Pete.
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