Re: DBFORMAT unusable !

Posted in 1995

Guenther Koegebehn — Wed, 13 Dec 1995 07:03:05 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

fidelia@ikp.atm.com.pl (Wlodek Futrega) wrote: >In Poland we use a dot symbol as thousands separator and the comma >symbol as decimal point separator, so the introduction of the DBFORMAT >variable seemed great. If it only worked. But I must say with sorrow >that it's unusable. We have several problems with RDS4.12 / SE5.00, because we use "," for DBMONEY/DBFORMAT. We can't search for numeric values and floats are unloaded with "." (other like decimals are unloaded correctly), so the combination is not usable. (Everything works fine with the dot.) So we switched to RDS6.01 / SE7.1 and what happens? Above features are corrected, but new DBMONEY/DBFORMAT surprises await you! The Debugger has some problems, and calculating with floats doesn't work properly!! When will they get their act cleaned up? That a software just works properly in the States and not in Europe shows BIG dilletantism. Guenther Koegebehn 100662.1447@compuserve.com