On Wed, 17 May 2017 14:59:28 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>I don't believe that this has anything to do with DFP. >>The decimal overflow exception that Peter reports occurs with Packed >>Decimal operations, not with Decimal Floating-point operations. > >Have a look at the DFP instructions. Some such as CZDT, and CZXT (Convert To >Zoned) >can indeed raise a decimal overflow exception. There probably are more.
Yes, the Convert to Packed (CPDT and CPXT) and Convert to Zoned (CZDT and CZXT) instructions can cause a decimal overflow exception. These are the result of the packed or zoned decimal target and not a result of DFP operations. These are the only DFP instructions that can cause a decimal overflow exception. As you had noted, decimal overflow can also occur with packed decimal arithmetic. The point I was trying to make is that abandoning the use of DFP would not solve the problem that you experienced. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
