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Setting decimal precision in the DEFINE VARIABLE statement of an EXTENT with the missing number of array elements produces uncompilable Java code.

Example:

def var d1 as decimal extent decimals 1 init [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
def var d2 as decimal extent 5 decimals 2 init [5,4,3,2,1].
def var d3 as decimal extent decimals 3.
def var d4 as decimal extent 1 decimals 4.
def var d5 like d1.
def var d6 like d2.

yields the following Java code (only relevant part shown):

         public void init()
         {
            ArrayAssigner.registerDynamicArray(d1);
            d1.setPrecision(1); // ERROR
            TransactionManager.register((Object) d1, (Object) d2, (Object) d3, (Object) d4, (Object) d5, (Object) d6);
            decimal.setPrecision(d2, 2);
            assignMulti(d3, new decimal(0));
            ArrayAssigner.registerDynamicArray(d3);
            d3.setPrecision(3); // ERROR
            assignMulti(d4, new decimal(0));
            decimal.setPrecision(d4, 4);
            ArrayAssigner.registerDynamicArray(d5);
            d5.setPrecision(1); // ERROR
            decimal.setPrecision(d6, 2);
         }

The change looks good, assuming it fixes the cases at note 1.

I accidentally fixed this issue in the issue #2294. This can be closed now.