From: GARY on
What is the ASCII equivalent of a field with a PIC of "S9(09)v99
Comp-3"?

From: HeyBub on
GARY wrote:
> What is the ASCII equivalent of a field with a PIC of "S9(09)v99
> Comp-3"?

There isn't one. There's no "ASCII equivalent" of any data definition.
Perhaps you could rephrase?

I can tell you the above PIC defines (usually) six bytes with a decimal
digit in each half-byte and the last half-byte contains the algebraic sign
of the number. i.e., 12 34 56 78 91 2S = 123,456,789.12


From: GARY on
How many text (ASCII) characters are contained in each of the following
fields?
In the "COMP-3" fields, how are negative numbers (for example,
-00000048612) shown?

PIC X(01)
PIC 9(09)
PIC 9(04)
PIC 9(02)
PIC 9(07)
PIC 9(02)
PIC 9(02)
PIC 9(04)
PIC 9(01)
PIC 9(06)
PIC 9(07)
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(05)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(02)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(05)V99 COMP-3
PIC 9(04)
PIC 9(04)
PIC S9(09) COMP-3
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
PIC 9(08)
PIC X(01)
PIC 9(02)
PIC X(02)
PIC S9(07)V99 COMP-3
PIC X(04)
PIC 9(07)
PIC 9(04)
PIC 9(05)
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
PIC S9(07)V99 COMP-3
PIC X(01)
PIC X(02)

From: William M. Klein on
What operating system? What compiler? What compiler options specified? and what
do you think the answers are?

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"GARY" <gcotterl(a)co.riverside.ca.us> wrote in message
news:1153077136.934457.120940(a)i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> How many text (ASCII) characters are contained in each of the following
> fields?
> In the "COMP-3" fields, how are negative numbers (for example,
> -00000048612) shown?
>
> PIC X(01)
> PIC 9(09)
> PIC 9(04)
> PIC 9(02)
> PIC 9(07)
> PIC 9(02)
> PIC 9(02)
> PIC 9(04)
> PIC 9(01)
> PIC 9(06)
> PIC 9(07)
> PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(05)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(02)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(05)V99 COMP-3
> PIC 9(04)
> PIC 9(04)
> PIC S9(09) COMP-3
> PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
> PIC 9(08)
> PIC X(01)
> PIC 9(02)
> PIC X(02)
> PIC S9(07)V99 COMP-3
> PIC X(04)
> PIC 9(07)
> PIC 9(04)
> PIC 9(05)
> PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3
> PIC S9(07)V99 COMP-3
> PIC X(01)
> PIC X(02)
>


From: GARY on
My "guess" is:

PIC X(01) 1
PIC 9(09) 9
PIC 9(04) 4
PIC 9(02) 2
PIC 9(07) 7
PIC 9(02) 2
PIC 9(02) 2
PIC 9(04) 4
PIC 9(01) 1
PIC 9(06) 6
PIC 9(07) 7
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3 11
PIC S9(05)V99 COMP-3 7
PIC S9(02)V99 COMP-3 4
PIC S9(05)V99 COMP-3 7
PIC 9(04) 4
PIC 9(04) 4
PIC S9(09) COMP-3 9
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3 11
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3 5
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3 5
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3 5
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3 11
PIC 9(08) 8
PIC X(01) 1
PIC 9(02) 2
PIC X(02) 2
PIC S9(07)V99 COMP-3 9
PIC X(04) 4
PIC 9(07) 7
PIC 9(04) 4
PIC 9(05) 5
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3 11
PIC S9(09)V99 COMP-3 11
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3 5
PIC S9(03)V99 COMP-3 5
PIC S9(07)V99 COMP-3 9
PIC X(01) 1
PIC X(02) 2



Note: The "Comp-8" LRECL = 160; the LRECL of my "guess" = 214