got it right finally!

As Pitman said, a leading + sign did the trick. This may seem very simple to
you, but I spent 8+ hours trying sweet talk with query :-)

>UPDATE ADD,ACT-WO-DET
EM-UNIT-NO      =>>F9
WM-WO-NO        =>>+6028160
LM-LOC-NO       =>>0001

is the right way to enter a P8 value[for future beginners]

Bunch of thanks to all ( Especially Roy,Pitman) You guys Rock

Will come here often

Answer to Raghu's suggstion about Suprtool is,
I am working at cleint place by dialing in a long distance call, where they
have only image and expired adager. Anyhow I will look into the option of
getting
suportool is it will solve the mysery a lot.

Good night all


>Misunderstood a bit.
>R all shows the { or } sign chars for zero, A for +1 etc,but when you are
adding, changing data, you should key a leading + or minus, not use the { ,
} A for +1 etc. If changing a field, you need to enclose in " ".
>
>NOTE THAT IF you do a report and specify detail fields, if you don't supply
a sign spec in the edit patterns, negative signs can be omitted and mislead you.
>

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