Re: 370 data to AS/400

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:09 PM 08/25/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am trying to restore data saved from a S370 to an AS/400.  Unfortunately,
>I can't make any sense of the packed data.
>
>Is there a parm I may have missed on the CPYFRMTAP command?  Any advise or
>suggestions?
By memory, 370/390/3090/(all that big behemoth shit) uses different 
conventions for the signed half byte in packed data.  The AS/400 interprets 
this correctly, and updates it when handling any specific field.

Math, sorting, etc. all works correctly.

Be careful.  These systems are highly tolerant of decimal data errors, and 
the AS/400 is not.

Al




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