Handling float values in easytrieve

rarvins · New User Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Texas

In the easytreive program i am comparing two input files downloaded from table, in this some float fields are there, that i have define as P 3.
The difference between these two files, i am writing to a output file. But the problem is the float values are coming in unreadable format like this

000411990?21642?85
000411?0 ?0 ?0 ?0
000411?2 684??12
00041184?7904?7904

So, somebody please tell me how to declare workstorage variable for moving these float values. See these float values we are moving to unix,which accepts data in text format only.So we are declaring every thing as A.

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:47 pm

What kind of "float" are you refering to? And why are you defining them as packed decimal?
Can you represent them as hex?

guptae · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:15 pm

Hi there,

To make it in readable fom u have to move it to mask edit field .

rarvins · New User Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Texas

rarvins · New User Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Texas

guptae can u please send me the syntax of mask, as i am new to mainframes

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:13 pm

rarvins · New User Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 59 Location: Texas

Ya Thompson float values are
1.8000000000000E+00
2.7640449438202E+00
1.7538461538462E+00

for these i am getting output in unreadable format like

000411?0 ?0 ?0 ?0
000411?2 684??12
00041184?7904?7904

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:41 pm

That's what I thought you meant, I do not think EZT has any support for float, at least I didn't see it in my manual........
What you might do is bring the 18 characters down into 2 contiguous binary fields and re-split according to the standard float format (which I would have to look up myself).