Re: BINDEC definition question

Ahh yes, BINDEC. Or, B in fixed format. This is an old binary format that
has been largely given up for INT and UNS.

So BINDEC is a decimal number like Zoned or Packed, but stored internally
as an integer. BINDEC(digits{:decimal places}) has two parameters, digits
and optionally decimal positions that work exactly like the digits and
decimal places for Zoned and Packed numbers. The internal length of a
BINDEC number is 1 byte (for digits up to 2), 2 bytes (for digits up to 4),
or 4 bytes (for digits up to 9). So a BINDEC(4,2) number equal to 12.34
would be stored internally in two bytes as 0000 0100 1101 0010. The
leftmost bit is the sign bit, and negative numbers are stored in two's
complement format.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:55 AM Mihael <mihael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

He probably meant BINDEC instead of BINDED (probably a typo).


https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=keywords-bindecdigits-decimal-positions


On 16.03.23 14:53, Mark Murphy wrote:

I just searched the v7.5 RPGLE Reference PDF, and can find nothing

related

to BINDED. Can you be more specific?

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:10 AM Alan Cassidy <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I just now noticed this data definition keyword.

Do I understand correctly that this data type is stored internally as if
it were an integer but when used it shows with the number
of//decimal//places specified?

--Alan Cassidy

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