Display Length in DDS

The display length is increased for certain types of fields and must be considered when laying out the display. The display length is increased by the OS/400 program in the following situations:

For an unsigned numeric field (like FIELD4 in Figure 88) with a nonzero decimal position, the system requires a decimal character to be typed into the field when decimal values are typed in as data. In Figure 87, 123 in FIELD4 does not require a decimal character, but 1234 does (123.4). For this field, the display length is 6.