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moyer1dl
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Hello,

We have a field that we are pulling from a Mainframe file that is using weird characters for negative or positive signs.

How do I convert that to work nice with Webfocus.

Example

{-0
}-0

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IBM Main Frame: MVS, FIX, VSAM

Windows SQL

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Francis Mariani
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Please tell us what the definition of the columns are and what you want to transform the values to.

Are these character columns?

{-0 -> +999
}-0 -> -999

Are these weird characters due to an incorrect column definition?


Francis


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susannah
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{:-) Wears a toupee
{:-0 Wears a toupee and is shocked you detected it



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moyer1dl
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The file that we are trying to report off of is an extract produced by a COBOL program. We have been told by our COBOL programmers that these signs are correct and we need to convert them.

Cobol Defines the field as

S9(12)V99

We want it to display as a simple cash amount with two decimal places.


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Francis Mariani
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I can't imagine how a COBOL program outputs {-0 as a S9(12)V99 field.

In the Master I'd define the field as 2 alpha fields and then add a DEFINE checking for the value in the sign field and multiply the number field by -1 if it's supposed to be negative.

This is easy-peasy...

Susannah!


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jimster06
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Good grief - this is Zoned Decimal(for those of us who remeber '11' punches or '12' punches!!!). Look at BCD in Wikipedia to see how the sign is expressed in the high-order four bits.
HTH

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moyer1dl
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I think we found a solution.

In the master we used a combination of

Ex USAGE=P15.2, ACTUAL=Z14,


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Francis Mariani
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Jim, you mean GI glasses?

How was the Master generated? I can't reveal how long it's been since I last worked with a VSAM file, but shouldn't this type of field be taken care of without any problems, is the field defined properly in the Master?

Is this of any help:
FIELD=SEQ_NO ,E70   ,I5    ,Z5 ,$

I think this is a zoned-decimal field. A DEFINE field taking this and dividing by 100 to enable the decimal places should work.

Or am I talking through my toupee?


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There you go then.


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zoned decimal.
ouch.
something deep, very deep, in my gray matter just exploded.



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Tony A
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quote:
my gray matter just exploded
Well, hopefully your toupee managed to keep most of it in? If not, can you reach the rest of it on the ceiling?

Zoned decimal - just had a Homer shiver moment Frowner
 
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