Rounding question

[Whittall, Conrad]

I believe John is thinking of the (in)famous 6.09, rather than 6.07.

6.07 was actually a pretty solid release for the IBM AS/400. I remember
beta testing it with a customer in London. It actually included a new
arithmetic expression engine that didn't convert everything to floating
point if it could avoid it. Instead it kept the operands in their
original format so long as that was compatible with the requested
operation. So integer multiplied by integer was kept as an integer
operation, while packed decimal divided by float would convert to float.

As for 6.09...well the less said about that the better ;)

Best regards,
Conrad

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Pickering, John
(NORBORD)
Sent: Wednesday 4 May 2005 16:12
To: PowerHouse List
Subject: RE: Rounding question

Blue reminisces ...

>The report was written in PH 5.?

>When 6.00 of PH came out (VAX_VMS, Rdb) the report no longer worked as 
>expected

>When version 6.10 was released and we upgraded the problem went away 
>and we could go back to the original report logic.

If 6.00 on VAX was as great as 6.07 on MPE was then I can completely
understand. This was not one of Cognos' stellar releases :-)  And us
dinosaurs won't forget or let Cognos forget either. 
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