Burroughs had several product lines; only the B6500 line survives at Unisys. The B2500 line had the sign to the left. The B6500 had the sign bit to the left for packed and to the right for signed numeric character data.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) <thomas.sa...@fiserv.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Burroughs WFM vs. z/OS JCl and VSE JCL wasRe: REXX as JCL replacement Many years ago when Converting a DDA system from Burroughs to IBM, Burroughs packed fields had the annoying habit of putting the sign at the beginning of the field....instead of the end of the field like IBM. Made for pages and pages of "Move with Offsets" in the Assembler programs....Cobol didn’t care for it at all. Does Burroughs still do that ?? Thanks, Tom Savor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
