"Seymour J Metz" <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote in message
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The default type for 3 and 4 is FIXED BINARY.
No it's not.
Constants have the type and precision of the constant.
Thus, 3 and 4 are both FIXED DECIMAL (1)
> PL/I does not have an integer type,
Yes it does,.
DECLARE X FIXED BINARY;
defines an integer variable X.
but the DIVIDE() BIF can be used to do an integer divide, and assigning a
quotient to a
FIXED BIN(foo,0) variable may do what you want, depending on precision issues.
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