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  3. February 2012

Re: Weirdness in a zoned decimal field

Yes, this is normal (if you're old and grizzled). C and D identified positive and negative for signed numbers, while F denoted an unsigned (and thus positive) field. Or so I recall.

Joe

I just got a sample file from a customer, in which there are weird
values in zoned decimal fields:

The high-order nybble of the low-order digit, rather than being an F, to
indicate a positive number, or a D, to indicate a negative number, is a C.

I'm frankly surprised that it's not throwing DD errors all over the place.

Has anybody ever heard of such a thing?

--
JHHL


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