what does this mean ?

PIC 9(7)V99 COMP-3.

dafon wrote:
PIC 9(7)V99 COMP-3.



It means you need to hire a COBOL programmer. He'll
have an EBCDIC chart in his shirt pocket, too.

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:27:45 -0400, Jason Mather
wrote:

dafon wrote:
PIC 9(7)V99 COMP-3.

It means you need to hire a COBOL programmer. He'll
have an EBCDIC chart in his shirt pocket, too.

Not that "Computational Type 3" has anything to do with EBCDIC; IIRC,
it's BCD.

Which means that 9(7)V99 would be a 9 BCD digit number with two digits
past the decimal; I forget what the significance of the "V" is: maybe
it was only print "." if the decimal digits were non-zero.

Malc.

Malcolm Weir wrote in
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:27:45 -0400, Jason Mather
wrote:

dafon wrote:
PIC 9(7)V99 COMP-3.

It means you need to hire a COBOL programmer. He'll
have an EBCDIC chart in his shirt pocket, too.

Not that "Computational Type 3" has anything to do with EBCDIC; IIRC,
it's BCD.

Which means that 9(7)V99 would be a 9 BCD digit number with two digits
past the decimal; I forget what the significance of the "V" is: maybe
it was only print "." if the decimal digits were non-zero.

Malc.


If I remember my cobol correctly, this is the notation that you use for a
computational field to indicate where the decimal point is, without
actually having a decimal point there. Before printing, you would move
it to a PIC 9(7).99 field. You could do computation on either field, but
the field with the 'V' would be much faster.

Then again, its been 20 years, so I could be wrong.......



--Gord.

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Gordo Laqua writes:
Malcolm Weir wrote in
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:27:45 -0400, Jason Mather
wrote:

dafon wrote:
PIC 9(7)V99 COMP-3.

It means you need to hire a COBOL programmer. He'll
have an EBCDIC chart in his shirt pocket, too.

Not that "Computational Type 3" has anything to do with EBCDIC; IIRC,
it's BCD.

Does the standard actually specify this? It's certainly common usage.
My copy's at home and probably covered in an inch of dust by now....

Which means that 9(7)V99 would be a 9 BCD digit number with two digits
past the decimal; I forget what the significance of the "V" is: maybe
it was only print "." if the decimal digits were non-zero.

Malc.


If I remember my cobol correctly, this is the notation that you use for a
computational field to indicate where the decimal point is, without
actually having a decimal point there. Before printing, you would move
it to a PIC 9(7).99 field. You could do computation on either field, but
the field with the 'V' would be much faster.

Then again, its been 20 years, so I could be wrong.......

Naw, you're right. V is the virtual decimal point, at least that's how
I always remembered it.

-- Anton

that's right. it is an implied decimal.
It also implies that cobol is driving me out of my mind.

"Anton Rang" wrote in message
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Gordo Laqua writes:
Malcolm Weir wrote in
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:27:45 -0400, Jason Mather
wrote:

dafon wrote:
PIC 9(7)V99 COMP-3.

It means you need to hire a COBOL programmer. He'll
have an EBCDIC chart in his shirt pocket, too.

Not that "Computational Type 3" has anything to do with EBCDIC; IIRC,
it's BCD.

Does the standard actually specify this? It's certainly common usage.
My copy's at home and probably covered in an inch of dust by now....

Which means that 9(7)V99 would be a 9 BCD digit number with two digits
past the decimal; I forget what the significance of the "V" is: maybe
it was only print "." if the decimal digits were non-zero.

Malc.


If I remember my cobol correctly, this is the notation that you use for
a
computational field to indicate where the decimal point is, without
actually having a decimal point there. Before printing, you would move
it to a PIC 9(7).99 field. You could do computation on either field,
but
the field with the 'V' would be much faster.

Then again, its been 20 years, so I could be wrong.......

Naw, you're right. V is the virtual decimal point, at least that's how
I always remembered it.

-- Anton