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susannah
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AFTER MATCH HOLD AS H4 OLD {FORMAT ALPHA }
Is this even possible?
i have to get FORMAT ALPHA out of my match process...and i've tried sticking that FORMAT ALPHA everywhere i can think of. Bombs.
Somebody kindly buy me a vowel...
Please tell me if its even possible...
i really don't want to TABLE FILE H4 PRINT * OTH AS H5 FORMAT ALPHA



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hammo1j
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S

Format is not an option for a MATCH (even format FOCUS which is a dump of the matrix)

You have to do a TFH PRINT * OTH FORMAT XXX

j


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susannah
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argh shoot me now.
then i'll nfr it...
Thanks John for confirming my fears.

///
i just NFR'd it, and got 'we can't do this' as an answer.
i know that.
Thats why its an NFR

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j.gross
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Did you try 
SET HOLDFORMAT = ALPHA
?

I just did, and lo-and-behold....

 SET HOLDFORMAT=BINARY
 MATCH FILE CAR    SUM SEATS BY COUNTRY
 RUN
 FILE CAR   SUM LENGTH WIDTH BY COUNTRY BY CAR   ON TABLE HOLD
 END
 DOS TYPE HOLD.MAS
 
SET HOLDFORMAT=ALPHA
 MATCH FILE CAR    SUM SEATS BY COUNTRY
 RUN
 FILE CAR   SUM LENGTH WIDTH BY COUNTRY BY CAR   ON TABLE HOLD
 END
 DOS TYPE HOLD.MAS
produces:

FILENAME=HOLD , SUFFIX=FIX , $
SEGMENT=HOLD, SEGTYPE=S1, $
FIELDNAME=COUNTRY, ALIAS=E01, USAGE=A10, ACTUAL=A12, $
FIELDNAME=SEATS, ALIAS=E02, USAGE=I3, ACTUAL=I04, $
FIELDNAME=CAR, ALIAS=E03, USAGE=A16, ACTUAL=A16, $
FIELDNAME=LENGTH, ALIAS=E04, USAGE=D5, ACTUAL=D08, $
FIELDNAME=WIDTH, ALIAS=E05, USAGE=D5, ACTUAL=D08, $

FILENAME=HOLD , SUFFIX=FIX , $
SEGMENT=HOLD, SEGTYPE=S1, $
FIELDNAME=COUNTRY, ALIAS=E01, USAGE=A10, ACTUAL=A10, $
FIELDNAME=SEATS, ALIAS=E02, USAGE=I3, ACTUAL=A03, $
FIELDNAME=CAR, ALIAS=E03, USAGE=A16, ACTUAL=A16, $
FIELDNAME=LENGTH, ALIAS=E04, USAGE=D5, ACTUAL=A05, $
FIELDNAME=WIDTH, ALIAS=E05, USAGE=D5, ACTUAL=A05, $


Is that cool or what?

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Francis Mariani
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It's Genius!

SET HOLDFORMAT = ALPHA should be in the profile.


Francis


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j.gross
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But FORMAT ALPHA has a major downside: Numeric fields get stored according to "size" of their Usage, and that can lead to data overflow, causing the record to contain asterisks. (It was a constant consideration under PC/Focus, which did not use Binary) That will not happen with Binary.

Use Alpha where required, then set it back to Binary.


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GamP
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And there is one more thing to be careful about when using alpha. It's a trap I fall into myself now and again.
It's when you have CDN set to ON. All the comma's and dots of the D-fields get switched and then transporting it to some other system might screw up the upload process.


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Francis Mariani
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Oh well Frowner I haven't come across these problems yet.


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susannah
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JACK KNOWS EVERYTHING!!!!!
my mantra of the week



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j.gross
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Full disclosure --- This one was total serendipity ---
I thought to myself, if it takes an NFR, might as well allow a free-standaing SET command. I dreamed up

SET HOLDFORMAT (natch) = ALPHA | INTERNAL | DEFAULT (to reset to the platform's default) | maybe others like Focus?

On a hunch (I know how much I don't know, so why put foot in mouth) I searched for HOLDFORMAT and found what I quoted earlier. There you go.

(They didn't include a reset, and my INTERNAL is their BINARY. Who's the committee that decides these spec details, before it goes to programming?)
 
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