Re: [open-cobol-list] [Bulk] Posible difference in the precision of COMPUTE statements between OPEN COBOL 1.1 and mainframe COBOL

[Fred Mobach]

On Friday 26 February 2010 15:46:12 Rich Smrcina wrote:
> The term mainframe is not ambiguous.  Mainframe refers to the IBM
> System 360/370/390/z/System z class of computer systems.  Other
> systems that call themselves 'mainframes' are hopping on the
> bandwagon, and likely do not use the same architecture or have the
> same reliability and availability characteristics.

I know that Siemens BS2/OSD mainframes use the same machine instructions 
as the IBM mainframes, e.g. UNPK, PACK, AP, DP, MP, SP, CMP, MVZ, MVO 
for packed decimal arithmetic. The differences are in the compilers and 
run-time systems.

The problem in this case is most likely the number of assumed digit in 
intermediate results, like Vince Coen already stated.
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