Re: Unsigned Packed Decimal Data

[Anton Gombkötö <Gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Here is the example of unsigned packed decimal data which was supported by
>RM-COBOL only.
>05  PACKQTY                     PIC 9(6)       COMP-6.
>05  ORGDATE                    PIC 9(6)       COMP-6.
>05  MDATE                          PIC 9(6)       COMP-6.
>05  USER                             PIC 99          COMP-6.
>05  DESC                             PIC X(19).
>05  FILLER                          PIC X(39).

I do not think that this has something to do with the packed data format.

In the ILE COBOL (i know it isn't) one finds that COMP-0 to COMP-9 are 
reserved words.

The data looks more like unsigned integer or binary. But possible field 
lengths for binary fields in RPG are 2 bytes (for 4 digits) and 4 bytes 
(for 9 digits) only. For unsigned integers its also 2 bytes (for 5 digits) 
and 4 bytes (for 10 digits).

But this seems to be pretty old, not external described, no date fields 
(and ORGDATE is DDMMYY, MDATE is YYMMDD) which makes this all a good 
candidate for a re-design to match current possiblities and methods...

0.02 Euro

Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö

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