Irrational subfile behavior

Al Karman alkarman@hotmail.com
Wed, 01 Sep 1999 21:13:06 GMT


Good call, Pox-John....

Having the curse of 15+years in this parallel universe of applications 
development, I have learned the hard way (is there ever an easy way?) to
:Purge <permsubfile>
:Listf <permsubfile>,2

A pox on 'yer pox!


>From: "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" <PICKERIJ@norbord.com>
>To: "'Al Karman'" <alkarman@hotmail.com>, powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: RE: Irrational subfile behavior
>Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:04:57 -0400
>
>I note that the subfile is permanent. Did you create the subfile previously
>with the counters defined as numeric (i.e. floating point)? Quiz then just
>writes over the data but doesn't bother changing the file label where the
>dictionary info is kept.
>
>Just one more reason to avoid permanent subfiles.
>
>John "a pox on permanent subfiles" Pickering
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Al Karman [SMTP:alkarman@hotmail.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:52 PM
> > To:	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> > Subject:	Irrational subfile behavior
> >
> > Good afternoon, fellow code-mules....
> >
> > I've the following ?
> >
> > I build a subfile (trwrk01) and define the 4x 'count' fields as
> > zoned*2.
> >
> > Now, riddle me this----how are my 'count' field morphing themselves into
> > floating point, hmmm ?
> >
> >
> > Q U I Z   (PowerHouse  8.19.C1)
> > Copyright 1998 COGNOS INCORPORATED
> >
> > acc *trwrk01
> > sho ite
> >
> >                                                  INPUT OUTPUT
> > TRWRK01                                 TYPE SCALE SCALE  DEC PICTURE
> > * TI-KEY                              CHAR                  X(14)
> > TI-PLAN-ID                            CHAR                  X(4)
> > TI-PART-ID                            CHAR                  X(10)
> > TI-REC-CODE                           CHAR                  X(3)
> > T-CB2-COUNT-81                        NUM     0     0    0  ^^
> > T-CB2-COUNT-83                        NUM     0     0    0  ^^
> > T-LO2-COUNT-1                         NUM     0     0    0  ^^
> > T-LO2-COUNT-2                         NUM     0     0    0  ^^
> > REF-NBR-LO2                           CHAR                  X(2)
> > TI-401K-BASIC-PCT                     NUM     0     0    0   ^^
> > TI-AFT-BASIC-PCT                      NUM     0     0    0   ^^
> > ASD-T-PAYMENT                         NUM     0     0    0  ^^^^^^^^
> > TI-INT-RATE-LO2                       NUM     0     0    0  ^^.^^^
> > TI-LOAN-LENGTH-LO2                    NUM     0     0    0   ^,^^^
> > TI-PAYMENT-FREQ-LO2                   CHAR                  X(2)
> > TI-LOAN-AMOUNT-LO2                    NUM     0     0    0
> >
> > e
> > End Run
> > qshow
> >
> > Q S H O W   (PowerHouse  8.19.C1)
> > Copyright 1998 COGNOS INCORPORATED
> >
> >
> > sho sub trwrk01
> > 99/09/01                    SUBFILE DICTIONARY
> >                             SUBFILE RECORD REPORT
> >
> >
> >      Subfile:            TRWRK01
> > > >     Type:               Permanent
> > > >     Organization:       Indexed
> > > >     Format:             8
> > > >     Record Size:        98 Bytes
> > > >
> > Item                          Type             Offset Size  Occurs
> >
> > TI-KEY                               CHARACTER        0      14
> > TI-PLAN-ID                           CHARACTER        14     4
> > TI-PART-ID                           CHARACTER        18     10
> > TI-REC-CODE                          CHARACTER        28     3
> > T-CB2-COUNT-81                       IEEE FLOAT       31     8
> > T-CB2-COUNT-83                       IEEE FLOAT       39     8
> > T-LO2-COUNT-1                        IEEE FLOAT       47     8
> > T-LO2-COUNT-2                        IEEE FLOAT       55     8
> > REF-NBR-LO2                          CHARACTER        63     2
> > TI-401K-BASIC-PCT                    ZONED UNSIGNED   65     2
> > TI-AFT-BASIC-PCT                     ZONED UNSIGNED   67     2
> > ASD-T-PAYMENT                        ZONED UNSIGNED   69     9
> > TI-INT-RATE-LO2                      ZONED UNSIGNED   78     5
> > TI-LOAN-LENGTH-LO2                   ZONED UNSIGNED   83     4
> > TI-PAYMENT-FREQ-LO2                  CHARACTER        87     2
> > TI-LOAN-AMOUNT-LO2                   ZONED UNSIGNED   89     9
> > > >
> > > > -- Index Contents --
> > > >
> >   ** TRIDX1 is a 14 byte  REPEATING PRIMARY  index **
> > > >
> > > >
> > Segment                              Type            Size  Ord  Offset
> > TI-KEY                               CHARACTER         14    A       0
> >
> >
> >
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