On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:48:57 -0700, Phil Smith wrote: >I'm asking about AFTER it's back in packed form, whether >most things will care if the sign nibble has changed from >unsigned to signed positive.
If you are asking whether packed decimal arithmetic operations will be affected in any way if the sign is F, rather than C (or A or E), the answer is "No". All of these values are treated as a positive sign and the decimal operations will behave exactly the same. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
