I wasn't suggesting to keep converting the data back and forth. She was looking to accumulate/total some counters. Convert the number to decimal and add it to a packed counter. No conversion back to binary required.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Staller, Allan <[email protected]>wrote: > <snip> > I fear to consume to much resources if I convert the data to decimal > each time. > </snip> > > <snip> > I wouldn't be too worried about using a CVD and AP for your total > fields. > </snip> > > I would!. I once worked on a COBOL program with only display fields in > the code. This program would "peg" a 158. > When I changed the Working storage display fields to the appropriate > internal representation, the program no longer registered. > > To make a long story short, *EVERY* subscript and data field that > represented a number went through PACK, CVB, (operation), CVD, UNPACK, > at least 4 times during the course of execution. > > BEWARE of CVD/CVB! > > To answer the original question, Perhaps using Floating point > instructions (either Hex or IEEE) will help. However, I have no > experience with the > CXFR, (operation), CFXR sequence of instructions as far as CPU > utilization is concerned. > > It seems to me a higher level language (SAS, ...) would be of more > assistance.... > > HTH, > > <snip> > > I'm reading some SMF30 records and want to accumulate several 4 byte > > binary values (like CPU SU, IO SU, ...) for jobs which achieve the > same > > criteria. But the summation grows over the 4 byte capacity (I use AR > in > > Amode31). Is there a way to use 2 register for the summation. Or can I > use > > Amode64-Code only for the addition. I fear to consume to much > resources if I > > convert the data to decimal each time. > > > </snip> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
