Robert Sample
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Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Posts: 8696
Location: Dubuque, Iowa, USA
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| You would use COMP or COMP-3 when there is a need to. When using CICS, for example, many of the length fields require COMP variables. Using COMP-3 for arithmetic is more efficient than using DISPLAY variables (although this isn't that major a reason to use COMP-3 these days). |
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