Packed Numbers -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Packed Numbers
From: Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:12:30 -0500
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I'm trying to recall IBM's specifications on size contraints, if any, for packed data fields. For some reason, I thought packed data was limited to 15 digits, but I can't be sure about this and I'm seeing some data fields that seem to support larger field sizes.

Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com

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