How to coverts character to decimal in progress 4GL?

I have written a query to show character as decimal value but i got an error. Let me share

DEFINE VARIABLE cDateTime AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.

DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tt_data NO-UNDO
FIELD DateTime AS DECIMAL FORMAT "->>,>>9.99".

ASSIGN
cDateTime = "20191604121566".

CREATE tt_data.
ASSIGN
tt_data.DateTime = DECIMAL(cDateTime) /* Message Date and Time */



But its says "Value cannot be displayed using ->>>,>>>,>>9.999999". Could you please help this case and tell me what is the wrong here?

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