Re: MVS Packed Decimal with no sign nibble?

From: Capomaestro (Nobody_at_home.net)
Date: 12/02/03 

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:02:06 -0000

Because the MQ message is moving between platforms, the issue of 'data
transparency' comes into play. What I believe you are seeing is a codepage
translation (EBCDIC/ASCII) conundrum. Is/are the COMP-3 fields defined in
MQ as 'binary' (numeric) or defaulted to data? MQ will translate x'40' to
x'20' (space = space) and 'C1' to '41' ('A' = 'A'). 0C-9C and 0F-9F will be
translated to whatever is in the codepage mapping.

"Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote in message
news:217e491a.0312012013.2802b2f5@posting.google.com...
> "JerryMouse" <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote
>
> > Huh? How could a system record numbers for further use without a sign?
>
> There are plenty of uses for numbers that can not be negative, or
> would be invalid if they were negative. Prices, discount rates, even
> quantities.
>
> Or are you making some other point ?

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