Re: Weirdness in a zoned decimal field -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Weirdness in a zoned decimal field
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:28:31 -0500
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On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:00 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Normal on *what*??? (And I've got a few gray hairs myself).

In 17 years of dealing with zoned decimal numbers on AS/400s, and
regularly seeing them at the hexadecimal level, I've never seen such a
thing. Neither has any QuestView customer ever reported a file with
C-zoned digits in a zoned decimal field.

On mainframes and many other systems. It has been supported as a positive zone value forever as far as I know. Pretty sure the RPG manual etc. covers it.

Jon Paris

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