On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 17:16:22 +1000 Robin Vowels <[email protected]> wrote:

:>On 2020-09-09 14:53, Seymour J Metz wrote:
:>> Has IBM announced an intention to support the vector instructions to
:>> allow more precision for FIXED DEC and FIXED BIN in PL/I?

:>FIXED DECIMAL gives you up to 31 digits.
:>FIXED BINARY gives you up to 63 bits.

:>How much do you need?

Never more than 16M. Or 4 computers worldwide.

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