| 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 trouble putting in the right FOCUS format description in
my .MAS for an RdB field PART_STD_COST datatype 'signed longword scale -2'.
An example of the field occurence is '15.21'.
I tried
USAGE ACTUAL RESULT
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D9 I4 15
D9 I4.2 0
D9.2 I4 15.00
D9.2 I4.2 .15
I9 I4.2 0
I9 I4 15
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I assume I could go on trying, but does anyone know what the right
USAGE/ACTUAL definition is to get '15.21' as a result?
Thanks, Eric.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 228.1 | Example reading signed Quadword scale -2 | NRPUR::CUSACK | Fri Jun 30 1989 10:12 | 8 | |
Your Actual should definitely be I4, but I think the problem may
be in your usage. I have a field in Rdb that is 'signed quadword
scale -2', and the values I use are: Actual=I8; Usage=D12.2. I
have no problem using these fieldtypes. Try bumping up your
usage to D10.2, perhaps, although it doesn't seem like you should
have any problems with I4 and D9.2. It's worth a shot.
Mike
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| 228.2 | Use D4.2 Actual for Signed Longword Scale -2 | NRPUR::CUSACK | Tue Jul 11 1989 10:07 | 12 | |
My previous reply to this is wrong (228.1). I had the same problem
with SIGNED QUADWORD SCALE -2. The solution is to have the actual
be D4.2 for the SIGNED LONGWORD SCALE -2, or actual D8.2 for SIGNED
QUADWORD SCALE -2. The USAGE would then be D10.2 or D16.2
respectively. Also, if you use autordb to generate the .MAS and
.ACX files for Focus, it will not give the correct actual for these
Rdb datatypes, it will use I4.2 or I8.2, which is wrong. IBI verified
the solution for me.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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