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Conference galvia::decintact

Title:DECintactECintact Conference
Notice:Dir, 4 | Kits, 5 | Slides, 243 | Training, 286
Moderator:GALVIA::JFEGAN
Created:Mon Oct 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:438
Total number of notes:1780

437.0. "scale factor problem" by CSC32::J_HENSON (Don't get even, get ahead!) Fri Apr 18 1997 21:04

decintact v2.0-1, openvms v6.1, vax

A customer (MMB) is having a problem with scale factors for formatted
fields.  From the forms manager, he is defining a filed as
format 999.999.

In the field attributes menu, the field is displayed as

formatted with a precision of 3 and a scale factor of 0.

He wants it to have a scale factor of 3.

Per the customer, page 517 of the forms manual states that the scale
must be greater than or equal to the precision.  However, if he
tries to change it, he gets an error saying that the scale factor must
be 0.

Any ideas as to what is going on here?  Is it a bug, or a misunderstanding
of how scale factors work?

Thanks,

Jerry Henson
U.S. CSC
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437.1What datatype are they using?GALVIA::JFEGANJoe Fegan@iloMon Apr 21 1997 16:0013
What datatype are they using? The DECintact 2.0-1 release notes section 10
"Known Problems in DECintact Version 2.0" states:


       10.2.3  Precision and data types

       The only data types that can handle precision are NUMERIC, FLOAT and
       DOUBLE FLOAT.


See also note 144 in this conference.

Joe.