On Saturday, 20 February 2016 16:46:14 UTC, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 06:54:56 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote: A COBOL program can establish its own collating sequence, which can be user-defined or "ASCII" or...
This would only affect alphanumeric fields (OK, I'll assume PIC A as well). Numeric and COMPUTATIONAL-type fields would be excluded. They are nothing to do with ASCII. If there is a convention for signed-DISPLAY-numeric data from a given compiler/OS combination, it is nothing to do with ASCII. > > >Indeed, there's a bit in the PSW indicating whether it is running in ASCII > >or EBCDIC, isn't there? :-) > > > Used to be. I doubt that it's still functional. Did COBOL ever exploit it? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
