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"JavaRanch, where the deer and the Certified play" - David O'Meara
Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
See this:
http://digilander.libero.it/foxes/Packed_Decimal.htm
Interesting note:
== Attention == COMP-3 fields should not be converted from EBCDIC to ASCII or vice-versa. If the usual EBCDIC-to-ASCII alphanumeric conversion were performed on the bytes in a packed-decimal field, the data would be corrupted.
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