Re: Packed decimals, anyone?

Posted in 1996

James Saville — Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:38:13 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Mike Ack wrote: > > I'm working on a file synchronization program with a vendor who insists > on receiving record timestamps as a pic(9) comp-3, or packed decimal > value. > > Does anyone have experience with this? Perhaps a c program with the > algorithm? > > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. > -- > -mka(macker@aslan.com) > macker@mhv.net > nangi namaj perez I'm not sure what you are trying to do with the data, but the p-loader in Informix v 7.2 has features to handle cobol outputs and signed-packed fields. I am not a cobol expert but have run into them before. I have usually had the programmer unpack the fields - but p-loader allows you to deal with them fine. You can even unload data from an informix database into a cobol output file with packed fields. Let me know how it goes - (e-mail is perferred as I don't get here too often). James Saville