Re: Unsigned Packed Decimal Data

[tomh@xxxxxxxxx]

I dunno what system it was running on.  I just told him that I'd have to do some 'creative' programming to handle the COMP-6 data (the appended x'0F' trick mentioned in other postings).  He said he'd just convert the data to COMP-3 instead.
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Didn't IBM drop support for RM-COBOL at some version or another of OS/400?
I did look at a package in the early 80's written in that.

Rob Berendt

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AS400 _currently_ only supports signed packed.  Luckily, I was able to get
the RM-COBOL programmer to change the data type in his program.
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There is a Computational Class 6 (COMP-6) supported by RM-COBOL which is
Unsigned Packed Decimal and I have to read that data in RPG.

Thx







Packed decimal data type is always signed.

    Alexei Pytel



"Shahid Yaqoob" <syaqoob@acp.com.sa>@midrange.com on 11/01/2000 09:48:04 AM

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Hi

How the can I read unsigned packed decimal data. Is there any special data
type
in RPG to handle this type of data.

I will appreciate your help