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RE: [open-cobol-list] Support for Big Numbers
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Bill Klein |
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RE: [open-cobol-list] Support for Big Numbers |
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Fri Dec 2 00:43:01 2005 |
The ANSI/ISO 2002 COBOL Standard *also* requires that a conforming COBOL
compiler support 31-digit numeric fields (DISPLAY, NATIONAL, BINARY, *and*
Packed-Decimal USAGEs).
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Doug Vogel
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:51 PM
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> Subject: [open-cobol-list] Support for Big Numbers
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> The Enterprise COBOL compiler for IBM and the ISeries
> (AS/400) ILE COBOL
> compiler support a field of PIC 9(31) PACKED-DECIMAL. Are
> there plans to
> implement this support in Open COBOL? A field with a
> description > 9(18)
> must be PACKED-DECIMAL.
>
>
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