In <2082084024112365.wa.david.speakebcbssc....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
12/13/2015
   at 02:53 PM, David Speake <david.spe...@bcbssc.com> said:

>So why is IBM generating the ZAP instruction?

To force the sign to a standard value?

>The only use to this is to abend with S0C7 if the data is garbage.
>Right?

No; see above. 

BTW, is there a [E]SPIE in the COBOL/LE runtime environment?

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