There are (not so) new instructions for IEEE decimal floating point. I don't recall whether the more recent Telum instructions included decimal.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Thompson <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Packed Decimal -- Extended(?) I seem to remember something said about an extension to packed decimal and new instructions. I've been looking at a recent z/Arch PoOP in pdf (IBM web site), and I can't seem to find what I hazily remember from a few years ago. Perhaps it is in a different publication. Could someone point me in the right direction, even if that is, you must have been dreaming. The issue is, how can COBOL handle larger packed decimal numbers than PACK/UNPACK can handle? I see this being a question that is going to get asked on a project I'm on.... And I can see special macros having to be developed for this.... -- Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
