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Enigma006
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Hai all..

We are trying to report on IMS mainframe database.
It seems in IMS (cobol), sometime a field is redefined to another field and they both share same memory.

On the webfocus we use a condition to use either of those fields.
There is no problem when both are Alphanumeric or both are packed.
But at a particular situation, one is packed-decimal and other is alpha-numeric.
Conversions using PTOA etc did not help. It gives FORMAT CONVERSION ERROR. DATA EXCEPTION.

Can anyone have any suggestions please.?

Thanks..

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GinnyJakes
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Define your field in the master as alphanumeric, i.e. Ann. Then refer to the "Using Functions" manual to read up on the CHKPCK subroutine. That should do what you need.


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Enigma006
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Thanks for the suggestion. Already tried that but did not work


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It has been a long time since I have done any IMS/DL1. But when a segment has two different layouts best practices suggest a segment type indicator. Have you tried using this as a RECTYPE in your master?


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Enigma006
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Thanks Jim.
We found the same and we are working on it now..


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