It depends on the application. There's nothing that forces you to only use decimal instructions on packed decimal data.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Andrew Rowley Sent: Monday, April 28, 2025 7:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles External Message: Use Caution On 29/04/2025 9:32 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: > The decimal instructions treat F zones as positive. That's always been my understanding. But I'm intrigued by the statement that it means unsigned in COBOL. Is there a practical difference? Or is it just a difference e.g. for formatting output? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
