CHANGING A NUMBERIC FIELD DECIMAL PLACES

[rstitzel]

I have a subfile that contains a numeric field that is 9 digits long. I want to be able to change the decimal positions "on the fly". If a user select type 1 I want the numeric field to be 9 with 4 decimal places. If it's a 2 I want it to be 3 with 2 decimal place. Is that possible? And if so, how is it done? Thank you.

 

[bwtc]

Yes, it is possible -- I did this back at my last job as an experiment...

You need to define the field in the subfile as alpha, and handle the decimal validation, etc through the RPG program.

 

[rstitzel]

bwtc,

Thanks for the idea. I implemented your suggestion and it works great.

Thanks again.