The range of a signed twos-complement fullword binary integer value F is, by definition,
-2^31 <= F <= +2^31 - 1, -2147483648 <= F <= +2147483247. Even the largest and smallest such values contain at least 9 [and sometime 10] notional decimal digits. Where it is still available either the NOTRUNC with a picture clause or COMPUTATIONAL-5 without a picture clause will, or at least can, yield the highest-performance code. Much depends upon the OPT() value you specify. In general truncations to decimal digits are a bad, even diseased, idea for binary data. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
