Steve Comstock wrote on 09/08/2006 03:00:56 PM: > You could probably define your field so that the > rightmost half byte (nibble? nybble?) is not > included. > > For example, a 5 byte packed decimal field beginning > at offset 32 would be: > > FIELDS=(32,4.4,BI)
The would be: FIELDS=(32,4.4,BI,A) > The ".4" indicates 4 bits of a byte. I don't think the > BI (bit string) pays attention to the leftmost bit as > a sign; if it does, you could replace that with CH. BI with 4.4 would ignore the last nibble. Actually, you can only use bit notation with BI, not with CH. > > Performance may suck, but the construct should work just > as you are intending. I wouldn't expect the use of bit notation to have a negative effect on performance vs the use of PD. It might actually be a bit better. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
