[U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread apogee79
I shall explain the problem that I am encountering in the best detailed way that I can. I am working on a billing application (running on UniVerse), which sends details to a downstream application for invoicing. If several invoice groups are sent in one shot, where the total is approximately more

Re: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread Rex Gozar
(This response assumes that your upstream UniVerse billing application is totalling decimal amounts.) I don't know of specific limitations concerning decimal places, but I do know that precision differences in floating point math cause unexpected behavior. If you're trying to total dollar

RE: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread Brutzman, Bill
What... No source code? --B -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of apogee79 Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:43 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places I

Re: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread ggayathri
Message- From: Rex Gozar rgo...@autopower.com To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, 7 May 2009 5:49 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places (This response assumes that your upstream UniVerse billing application is totalling decimal amounts.)? ? I don't know

Re: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread Martin Phillips
Hi, In short, problem can be described as it is caused by? the fact that on certain condition represented by combination of large number of invoices and over 9 digits totals Universe engine creates a small fractional addition to total number. Not quite right. The problem here is that, just

RE: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread Mark Eastwood
two decimal values). Mark -Original Message- From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of ggayat...@aol.in Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:26 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

Re: [U2] Any limitation in UniVerse decimal places

2009-05-07 Thread asvin . dattani
Hi, Th String maths routines (SDIV, SMULT etc) that Martin alludes to at the bottom of his post are very effective, but do require code changes to all the calcuations in the program. You can achieve the same effect in Universe by putting $OPTIONS STRING.MATH at the top of the program.