One of the very first bugs I had to find was in a COBOL program written implementing an algorithm to distribute a rounding error back into a set of transactions. The COBOL program, written by another programmer, went into a loop when the remaining error value was negative packed decimal zero. Worked fine if the remaining error arrived at positive zero.
I think I was less than a year total employment in the industry at the time. 1981 Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
