How to validate Binary/Comp data ??

bhavishya_bhandari · New User Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 7

Hi
Am getting binary data in COMP form from a file.
Initially I read it in Alphanumeric datatype but
want to validate whether the data is Numeric or not.
How Can i do that ??

kondakonda · New User Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 34

Hi,

we can validate the date whether it is numeric/aphanumeric using the following condition like

IF identifier is NUMERIC/ALPHABETIC/ALPHABETIC-HIGHER/
ALPHABETIC-LOWER

Thanks.

rajandhla · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:18 pm

Hi,

Intoduce a sort step in the job to covert the comp data to normal display format of the file.

Then give that file input to your cobol program. there are options in cobol like is numeric ..etc

Hope this helps

Regards
jai

bhavishya_bhandari · New User Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 7

yeah ... dat was gud one ...
thnx jai ...