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<title>Conversion of a field from floating point to packed decimal, zoned
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decimal, or binary in DDS</title>
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<h1 class="topictitle1">Conversion of a field from floating point to packed decimal, zoned
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decimal, or binary in DDS</h1>
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<div><p>If you are converting a floating-point field (in a physical file)
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to a packed decimal, zoned decimal, or binary field (in a logical file), you
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must explicitly specify the length and decimal positions. When converting
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floating-point data to fixed-point format, make sure that the
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values you specify for length and decimal positions are large enough to accommodate
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the data.</p>
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<p>Physical file length and decimal positions are presentation values only
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and do not indicate the magnitude of the number.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="ldata.htm" title="For a physical file, use this position to specify the data type of the field within the database. Specify data type in a logical file only to override or change the data type of the corresponding field in the physical file on which this logical file is based.">Data type for physical and logical files (position 35)</a></div>
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