Doubt in convertion of packed decimal to numeri

creativity · New User Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 3 Location: India

Hi,

Can any one please explain me what the following command do with ICEMAN utility?

William Thompson · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:15 pm

It is one of the twenty-seven pre-defined edit masks can be found in Table 43. Edit Mask Patterns

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:31 pm

9,7,PD,M26

It converts the 7-byte PD input value starting in position 9 to an output value of 'sdd...d' starting in position 1, where s is + for a positive value or - for a negative value and d is 0-9. So P'1234567890123' would be converted to '+1234567890123' and P'-1' would be converted to '-0000000000001'.

If you're not familiar with DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL, I'd suggest reading through "z/OS DFSORT: Getting Started". It's an excellent tutorial, with lots of examples, that will show you how to use DFSORT, DFSORT's ICETOOL and DFSORT Symbols. You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from:

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creativity · New User Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 3 Location: India

Thanks friends...

Sorry for the late reply...