Is there any way to increase the reporting precision of a Reuters DataStream Matlab API request ?

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The Matlab API to Reuters DataStream via the fetch command reports prices (P) and total returns (RI) to two decimal places by default. This is often not enough in practice in one instance. For example, a stock price in USD reported in USD will be fine -- reporting to the penny. Now, consider a currency like the Yen. Stocks in Yen may, reported in dollars, often fall below a single dollar, at which point a price or return expressed to two digits left of the decimal point is not sufficient. Is it possible to change the command below to return to a higher degree of precision? Thomson-Reuters believes this is a Matlab question, not one for them.
The command I use is the following:
where "Connect" is the connection to Thomson Reuters
dataTSRI=fetch(Connect,... 'IBM.N',... 'RI',... confParams.TimeSeries.STARTDATE,... confParams.TimeSeries.ENDDATE,... confParams.TimeSeries.FREQUENCY,... confParams.TimeSeries.REPORTINGCURRENCY);
As per the documenation in Matlab:
data = fetch(Connect, 'Security', 'Fields', 'FromDate', 'ToDate', 'Period', 'Currency', 'ReqFlag')
Does ReqFlag allow to impose a higher reporting precision?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Patrick

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