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Re: The fate of EuCOM with gotos....

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Nov 09, 2004
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Jonas Temple wrote:
> 
> I'm getting the values from an IBM AS/400 running DB2.  The numeric values
> I'm getting are defined as a fixed number of decimals (15,5) which is
> fairly common on this type of machine.  If you want to run a test then I
> can arrange for you to run the client install that will put the ADO 
> provider on your machine.

Thanks, but I think I have another way to make them.
 
> Incidentally, I'm still running into situations where a get of a string
> field's value will return the actual string in some instances and in 
> other instances it will return a numeric value that has to be fed to
> peek_bstr().  Weird, huh?  If you install the ADO provider for my 
> AS/400 then I might be able to provide some examples.
> 
> Please don't think that I want you to do all the work here!  I want to 
> learn how it's all put together but I haven't been able to find a 
> starting point to figure out how the functions are put together.  Can you
> at least point me in the right direction?

Try this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/automat/htm/chap7_5alv.asp

You might be able to use these functions to change a decimal to a double
or something.  Otherwise, perhaps if you could post the contents of the
VT_DECIMAL (i.e.,  peek( {variant,16} ) )  we might be able to figure it
out.

Matt Lewis