How to use COBOL to read QUIZ subfile data type NUM

[David Heasman]

  > A programmer of ours created a sub-file with packed signed fields
 > which are 8 positions long but now can't get a IBM Cobol Pgm to read it
 > correctly after converting it to EBCDIC via Fcopy with the exclude verb
 > option(can't convert field when packed).

 >     Any Quiz defines with corresponging Cobol source code(i.e. comp-3 or
 > comp-4 etc)? Thanks in advance.


Quickest & easiest is to create another subfile from your subfile with the
offending
 number/s set as INTEGERS, or ZONED, and process that.


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