Conversion from Binary to Hex

Prajesh_v_p · Active User Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 133 Location: India

For one of our requirment, we need to convert the Binary value we recieve from user to Hex as illustrated below:

When a user enters 0051, we need to convert that to 0033. We cannot try the SQLs for this as this is a heavily used program.

Thanks in advance.

Hope it is clear.

Thanks,
Prajesh V P

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:08 am

Prajesh_v_p · Active User Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 133 Location: India

Hi Enrico,

This how I get.

9(02) - 51

This how I wanted

X(02) - X'0033'

Here 33 is the binary equivalent of 51. I am looking whether this conversion is possible from 9(02) to X(02) and vice versa.

Thanks,
Prajesh V P

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:48 am

use a bit of imagination ...
You got what You asked for the COMP field will contain exactly that x'0033'

my previous post was edited for clarity adding the human readable representation and the hex storage content

Prajesh_v_p · Active User Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 133 Location: India

Hi Enrico,

Thanks a lot. It worked out well.

Sorry that, it did nt ring any bell in my head first time

Thanks,
Prajesh V P

jctgf · Active User Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 109

I have a similar need, but not that simple.
I'd like to see the binary representation of the content of a decimal zoned field.
For example, if the decimal value is 21, I'd like to get it's binary EBCDIC representation, 00010101, in a 8-digit decimal field so that I can handle each digit (0 or 1) separately.
I made a little program to do it but I wonder if there's a Cobol function for it.
Thanks.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:17 pm

Hello,

I know of no built-in function to do this.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:58 pm