Scientific Notation on Large Fully-Numeric App Vars

[TonyDB]

Hello CNX support,

I have an issue with the setAppVar procedure and how it treats fully numeric strings.

The setAppVar procedure in RPGLE is turning fully-numeric strings that are more than 21 characters long into scientific notation, and I need to prevent that.


If I do this in RPGLE:

setAppVar('myAppVariable' : '123456789012345678901'); // 21 characters long

Then the app variable becomes this:

'123456789012345678901'

But if I do this in RPGLE:

setAppVar('myAppVariable' : '1234567890123456789012'); // 22 characters long

Then the app variable becomes this:

'1.2345678901234568e+21'

?


I'm on version 6.3.20250207.0.

I understand that in version 6.3.20250325, the setAppVar procedure for numeric values retains decimal point and precision when applicable, and that previously a value of "1.0" would become "1". But I think this is unrelated.


It would be awesome if we could indicate as an entry parameter that this is a CHAR and that I want it to stay exactly as it was when I passed it into setAppVar.

Thank you!

[Johnny Major]

Thank you for the information. This will be addressed in the next 6.3 update.