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Post #423,336
by drook
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4/13/18 9:11:47 AM
4/13/18 9:11:47 AM
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New You *order* integer quantities, but stock on hand is fractional
Someone building the UI today would (obviously, I hope) not require entering the ".00" every time, but weren't greenscreen apps much more closely tied to the underlying data?
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Drew
Post #423,341
by Another Scott
4/13/18 11:11:22 AM
4/13/18 11:11:22 AM
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New My recollection is that it was a funky program.
I would often end up with totals that exceeded the listed stock in the warehouse. (Negative warehouse totals resulted.) It didn't seem to matter - I was told to ignore it. I gathered that whoever was in charge of ordering stuff for the warehouse had some different way of keeping track of what was needed and when (but it sorta made what I was doing kinda pointless as far as that goes).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Programs are weird sometimes. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.
     Subtle - (drook) - (12) - April 12, 2018, 01:11:45 PM EDT
         We have AS400 databases with dozen upon dozen of those. Our RPG programmers refused to use Integer. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (10) - April 12, 2018, 05:02:52 PM EDT
             Might make sense - (crazy) - (9) - April 12, 2018, 06:15:27 PM EDT
                 Sounds vaguely familiar... - (Another Scott) - (7) - April 12, 2018, 10:00:20 PM EDT
                     Why to do that for flour - (drook) - (6) - April 12, 2018, 10:35:36 PM EDT
                         But they ordered integer quantities. - (Another Scott) - (5) - April 12, 2018, 10:56:40 PM EDT
                             But can you explain this? - (mmoffitt) - (2) - April 13, 2018, 08:10:07 AM EDT
                                 Nope. I never was a dB coder. -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 13, 2018, 08:16:04 AM EDT
                                     It wouldn't have helped if you had been. ;0) -NT - (mmoffitt) - April 13, 2018, 09:31:44 AM EDT
                             You *order* integer quantities, but stock on hand is fractional - (drook) - (1) - April 13, 2018, 09:11:47 AM EDT
                                 My recollection is that it was a funky program. - (Another Scott) - April 13, 2018, 11:11:22 AM EDT
                 BCD and old mainfraimes. - (static) - April 13, 2018, 08:37:28 PM EDT
         Saving space? - (scoenye) - April 14, 2018, 11:13:13 AM EDT

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