Author: Robert Sample
Subject: Reply to: READ A PACKED "NEGATIVE" FIELD WITH EASYTRIEVE
Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 12:15 am (GMT 5.5)
No, the system is doing EXACTLY what you told it to do. If you look at the character K in the EBCDIC collating sequence, it is D2 -- which is a zoned decimal negative 2 value.
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Subject: Reply to: READ A PACKED "NEGATIVE" FIELD WITH EASYTRIEVE
Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 12:15 am (GMT 5.5)
No, the system is doing EXACTLY what you told it to do. If you look at the character K in the EBCDIC collating sequence, it is D2 -- which is a zoned decimal negative 2 value.
_________________
TANSTAAFL
The first rule of code reuse is that the code needs to be worth re-using.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth