RE: Passing numeric fields to COBOL program -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 03:28 PM 6/22/98 -0500, Lou Forlini wrote:
>Pete:
>
>At 06:46 PM 6/21/98 -0700, Pete Hall (peteh@inwave.com) wrote:
>
>>I had to convert some packed fields from a mainframe flat file several
>years >ago, and had to examine each for a C in the sign nibble and replace
>that with a >D in order to make it work.
>
>   Maybe you were replacing the sign with an 'F'?  A 'D' would have changed
>the numbers to negative.

It's been a long while, but as I recall, they were supposed to be negative. The 
X'D' is what was needed. Positive values came over with a X'F' sign.

Pete

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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