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On 14-Jan-09, at 2:43 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, my question is, why don't I see the C5 for the positive but rather, I
see a F5 instead.

Nothing to worry about Michael - both are acceptable as positive values.

The Cn variant is used in mainframe data - don't recall what the S/36 did. Did the data originate on another platform?

The Fn variant is the preferred sign for IBM i, but both Cn and Fn are recognized as equivalent.

The only time you would ever encounter a problem due to this is if two of the fields with different sign variants were (say) in data structures and you tried to compare the DSs. If you compare them as numerics they will always match.



Jon Paris

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