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MOHAN KUMAR DURAIRAJAN
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1. Can any one share the exact difference between Zoned Decimal and Packet Decimal.
2. Advantages of both. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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from Your profile ...
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Occupation: SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Mainframe Skills: JCL,COBOL,REXX,DB2,VSAM,CICS |
should not be that difficult to read the manuals and find out Yourself
for all You might want to know about the internal/hardware representation of numerics
the mother of all the knowledge is the Principle of operations
available ( for example ) here
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a |
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Akatsukami
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No, because there is no such thing as "packet decimal".
Ironically, just before I saw this thread I was reading an essay by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, "Dreadful Phrases", on malapropisms. You may benefit from reading it yourself. |
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Robert Sample
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Akatsukani, you mean "packet decimal" is not used in socket programming?  |
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Akatsukami
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| Robert Sample wrote: |
| Akatsukani, you mean "packet decimal" is not used in socket programming? |
Go ahead, Robert, socket to me |
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enrico-sorichetti
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and then we might continue the diatribe
USS as Unformatted System Services VS USS as Unix System Services
( gone on for a long time on IBM MAIN )
I was tempted to start one about DATA SET (*)
file VS modem
(*) a loong time ago it was written in both ways for both meanings  |
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Robert Sample
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| So I should just "packet" on? |
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Robert Sample
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| MOHAN KUMAR DURAIRAJAN, you keep asking about advantages of different formats. This is a quesiton students ask (because teachers ask them I guess). Professional programmers understand that the question is not one of advantages of, say, packed-decimal versus zoned decimal, but rather when does packed decimal make sense and when does COMP make sense and when does zoned decimal make sense and so forth. An "advantage" depends upon the specific requirements and can rapidly become a liability depending upon the situation. |
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dick scherrer
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| And i seem to recall the Latin form - Sock et Tuum . . . |
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charanmsrit
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