To Quiz or not to Quiz...

[Guy Werry]

No, I don't believe that you can get Quiz to go beyond 256 / 263.
 
Why do you need the numbers formatted?
 
One potential area to examine is using Qtp to write to a portable subfile.
I haven't done this for more than a decade, but if memory serves me
correctly, the data format on a portable subfile is some sort of display
format.  That probably won't give you commas between your thousands, but it
may give you enough to work with.  I.E., you may get "995323.17" - I don't
think you'll get "995,323.17".
 
Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tremblay.Pierre-McLeod at hydro.qc.ca
[mailto:Tremblay.Pierre-McLeod at hydro.qc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:14 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: To Quiz or not to Quiz...



Hi everybody, 

I'm trying to extract powerhouse data to an ASCII file keeping the correct
dictionary picture format. 

Using Quiz, everything is OK, it's like a report, so the numbers are
formatted according to the dictionary format without having to specify a
picture for every field.  Good!   But, I cannot exceed the 263 characters
barrier for a record.  It wraps the line. ...  hum...  too bad...

Using QTP, I don't have the wraparound problem but the format of the fields
is catastrophic.  Presented as they are stored on file, without any decimal
format, the numbers are useless.   

There is certainly a way to create records more than 263 characters long in
Quiz or to use the dictionary format in QTP ?

Surely I'm missing something.... ? 

I'm talking about powerhouse 7.10.E sitting on a vax computer running
OpenVMS 6.2 

Thank's ! 

Best regards. 

                                                                         
Pierre McLeod Tremblay 
Consultant T.I. / I.T. Consultant 
pmcleod at videotron.ca 
819.263.0791 fax: 819.263.0792 
My french is better than my english.  Sorry for the Frenglish... 

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