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amarjit singh

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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:02 pm
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hello,

i need your suggestion onthe following issue.

my program is reading input data into a copybook and
the copybook have field declared as:
05 PRICE OCCURS 80 PIC 9(5)V99.

earlier the price range was from 0 to 10000.00 (only +ve value)
but now the range varies from -1000.00 to 10000.00.

please suggest the change in picture clause for the price fileld to accomodate the negative value starting from -1000.00 to value 10000.00.

thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:06 pm
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Do you think maybe a sign (S) character is called for in the value?
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:08 pm
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hi,
declaring as S9(5)v99 is giving '{' in the output.
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:18 pm
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Hello,

Yes, that is correct . . . A pic 9 signed value contains the sign in the high-order nibble of the low-order byte.
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:19 pm
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Add on:

It is not clear (to me) what you are asking . . .
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:26 pm
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amarjit singh wrote:
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declaring as S9(5)v99 is giving '{' in the output.

Exactly; "{" is the glyph in EBCDIC for X'C0'; i.e., positive zero. You are seeing signed zoned decimal.

Now, assuming you want "+" and/or "-" glyphs to be used, I recommend that you consider fixed or floating insertion editing, or the use of the SIGN clause. Note that these thing will change the size of variables.
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:31 pm
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hi..
yes we want '-' only for -ve values without altering the variable field length.
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:34 pm
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Hello,

Sorry, but you can only have one or the other. If you have 7 digits, it will take 8 to hold all 7 + the "-".
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PostPosted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:47 pm
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dick scherrer wrote:
Hello,

Sorry, but you can only have one or the other. If you have 7 digits, it will take 8 to hold all 7 + the "-".

Now that I think about it, in this special case, the value can be accommodated if a floating minus sign is used, since Amarjit assures us that -1000 is the smallest value that will be stored in the variable.

Of course, as soon as he comes back and says, "Well, my requirement is really...", all bets are off.
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 12:21 am
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Hello,

Or if the current maximum negative becomes larger, there would probably be problems later. . .

I'd recommend an implementation that could not come back to "bite" me.
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:21 pm
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If you have PIC 9(5)V99 and you want it "signed", then you make it PIC S9(5)V99, as was first suggested.

You mention it is a copybook, with an OCCURS 80. What is using the data which the copybook represents? If it is only a/some Cobol programs on the mainframe, they can fully understand what appears to you as {, } or a "letter of the alphabet".

So, what is reading the data you create?
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amarjit singh

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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:36 pm
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thanks all for your suggestion.
i did the following changes in copy book and it works fine..

01 price.
05 A OCCURS 80 TIMES.
10 B PIC 9(5)V99.
10 C REDEFINES B.
15 D PIC -9(4)V99.

in logic, when -ve amount, move amount to D
else move value to B.

after this in output file i am getting the required '-' sign for price less than 0. thanks.
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:27 pm
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Hello,

If that will do, ok.

Just curious, but why does the data need to have the actual "-" sign?
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:29 pm
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hi..
the output will be send as text file to server..
an the price range is from -1000 to 10000 . thats why .
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 11:43 pm
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Understood icon_wink.gif

Thanks,

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