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by CareEv
Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: COMP fields
Replies: 4
Views: 4544

Re: COMP fields

CareEv wrote:
DataMystic Support wrote:Use BINARY instead of COMP.

Like this?

10 WS-PROVIDER-ID PIC S9(9) USAGE BINARY.

Nevermind. It needs to look like this:

10 WS-PROVIDER-ID PIC S9(9) BINARY.
by CareEv
Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:25 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: COMP fields
Replies: 4
Views: 4544

Re: COMP fields

DataMystic Support wrote:Use BINARY instead of COMP.

Like this?

10 WS-PROVIDER-ID PIC S9(9) USAGE BINARY.
by CareEv
Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:42 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: COMP fields
Replies: 4
Views: 4544

COMP fields

We have had no problem with EBCDIC conversions with COMP-3 fields, but our customer threw us a curve today and sent a copybook with fields that look like this: 10 WS-PROVIDER-ID PIC S9(9) USAGE COMP. So COMP instead of COMP-3. TextPipe doesn't complain, but these fields are not converting properly. ...