Thanks!
>________________________________ > From: Steve Comstock <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:18 PM >Subject: Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble > > >On 4/25/2013 4:13 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> That's useful to know. We communicate with Visa and they use this format for >many of the fields in their messages. Currently we use some overly clever COBOL >to convert these to DISPLAY (zoned decimal) format. When I have time I'll see >if >I can write a little asm routine to use CDUTR andCSDTR for this. I guess I >would >have to follow a CDUTR with a CSDTR to convert it to signed-packed, and then >use >UNPK (if desired) to get it to zoned decimal. Interesting. > >Hmm. Maybe ED instead of UNPK, I think. > > >> >> >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Tom Marchant <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:01 AM >>> Subject: Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: >>> >>>> So-called "unsigned packed-decimal" data is mis-leading >>>> at best because it cannot be used in any packed decimal >>>> arithmetic or compare operations.... >>> >>> Unsigned-Packed-Decimal was introduced in the sixth edition of >>> the z/Architecture Principles of Operation, SA22-7832-05, along >>> with the Decimal-floating-point facility. The publication date is >>> April, 2007 >>> >>> -- >>> Tom Marchant >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> >>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > >-- > >Kind regards, > >-Steve Comstock >The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > >303-355-2752 >http://www.trainersfriend.com > >* To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > >* Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
