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| sreemoyee.b |
 Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:43 am Post subject: Conversion of Packed Decimal to Decimal in ESQL code. |
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Hi All,
I am calling a Stored Procedure from my message broker flow, where in return i would be getting one packed decimal value in a character field.. In my message flow (through ESQL) I have to convert the packed decimal value to a decimal value..
Can anybody please help ASAP.. 
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Conversion of Packed Decimal to Decimal in ESQL code. |
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| sreemoyee.b wrote: |
| In my message flow (through ESQL) I have to convert the packed decimal value to a decimal value.. |
CAST? FORMAT? 
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| sreemoyee.b |
| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:26 am Post subject: |
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But what is the datatype that I have to define for packed decimal in FORMAT or CAST..?
And, the field I am going to get from the Stored Procedure is an array of 5 specific rates in packed decimal of bytes-3. I guess I have to unpack them as well..
Please help..
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| sreemoyee.b wrote: |
| But what is the datatype that I have to define for packed decimal in FORMAT or CAST..? |
Whatever you need it to be....
| sreemoyee.b wrote: |
| And, the field I am going to get from the Stored Procedure is an array of 5 specific rates in packed decimal of bytes-3. I guess I have to unpack them as well.. |
I guess you're right.
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| sreemoyee.b |
| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| That is what I want to know.. how can I unpack the packed decimal in our ESQL code? |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| sreemoyee.b wrote: |
| That is what I want to know.. how can I unpack the packed decimal in our ESQL code? |
I still think CAST and FORMAT are the best options.
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| jbanoop |
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| Packed decimal should be handled as a binary and not as char data. I believe that if a packed decimal representation gets converted to a char format, then it loses its meaning but I might be wrong too. |
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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Don't convert it to CHARACTER - packed decimal is a binary format.
You should
- carefully read the specification of the packed decimal format
- write some ESQL or Java code to convert the packed decimal BLOB to a signed integer
or you could exploit the fact that the MRM parser supports packed decimals, and define a very small message set containing a single packed decimal field...but you would only do that if you were very scared of implementing your own solution  |
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