diff --git a/dfsclient/src/main/java/org/hpccsystems/dfs/client/BinaryRecordReader.java b/dfsclient/src/main/java/org/hpccsystems/dfs/client/BinaryRecordReader.java
index 565a59454..58470fdd8 100644
--- a/dfsclient/src/main/java/org/hpccsystems/dfs/client/BinaryRecordReader.java
+++ b/dfsclient/src/main/java/org/hpccsystems/dfs/client/BinaryRecordReader.java
@@ -830,7 +830,15 @@ private BigDecimal getUnsignedDecimal(int numDigits, int precision, int dataLen)
         BigDecimal ret = new BigDecimal(0);
 
         int idx = 0;
-        int curDigit = numDigits - 1;
+        int curDigit = numDigits;
+
+        // If the # of digits is odd the top most nibble is unused and we don't want to include it
+        // in the scale calculations below. Due to how the scale calculation works below this means
+        // we decrement the starting value of curDigit in the case of even length decimals
+        if ((numDigits % 2) == 0)
+        {
+            curDigit--;
+        }
 
         while (idx < dataLen)
         {
diff --git a/dfsclient/src/test/resources/generate-datasets.ecl b/dfsclient/src/test/resources/generate-datasets.ecl
index 0c1fdafa7..fed129a15 100644
--- a/dfsclient/src/test/resources/generate-datasets.ecl
+++ b/dfsclient/src/test/resources/generate-datasets.ecl
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ childRec := {STRING8 childField1, INTEGER8 childField2, REAL8 childField3};
 rec := {INTEGER8 int8, UNSIGNED8 uint8, INTEGER4 int4, UNSIGNED4 uint4,
         INTEGER2 int2, UNSIGNED2 uint2,
           REAL8 r8, REAL4 r4,
-          DECIMAL16_8 dec16, UDECIMAL16_8 udec16,
+          DECIMAL16_8 dec16,
+          DECIMAL15_8 dec15,
+          UDECIMAL16_8 udec16,
+          UDECIMAL15_8 udec15,
           QSTRING qStr,
           STRING8 fixStr8,
           STRING str,
@@ -33,7 +36,9 @@ ds := DATASET(totalrecs1, transform(rec,
                                    self.r8 := (REAL)(random() % unique_values);
                                    self.r4 := (REAL)(random() % unique_values);
                                    self.dec16 := (REAL)(random() % unique_values);
+                                   self.dec15 := (REAL)(random() % unique_values);
                                    self.udec16 := (REAL)(random() % unique_values);
+                                   self.udec15 := (REAL)(random() % unique_values);
                                    self.qStr := (STRING)(random() % unique_values);
                                    self.fixStr8 := (STRING)(random() % unique_values);
                                    self.str := (STRING)(random() % unique_values);