How to use COBOL to read QUIZ subfil

[Deskin, Bob]

Let's be totally fair to poor old COBOL. If memory serves me correctly, some
COBOLs support COMP-1 and COMP-2 which are floating point types. But it
depends which platform you're on. NUMERIC in PowerHouse is an 8 byte
floating point number. If you can find an equivalent in the COBOL you're
using, great. Otherwise, do what John suggested and change it before
outputing.

Bob Deskin              
Senior Product Advisor  bob.deskin@cognos.com
Cognos Inc.             (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


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> From: 	pickerij@norbord.com[SMTP:pickerij@norbord.com]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, October 21, 1998 1:03 PM
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> Subject: 	FW: How to use COBOL to read QUIZ subfil
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> >I am trying to use COBOL to read a QUIZ subfile. Can anybody tell me
> >what is the corresponding COBOL data type for QUIZ data type NUM?
> 
> There isn't one :-(
> 
> Poor old Cobol just doesn't understand floating point numbers. Change the
> 
> items in the subfile to zoned decimal or integer.
> 
> Regards,
> JWP  
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