This is a follow up on an earlier thread in IBM-MAIN and a current thread in comp.lang.cobol.
Has anyone TRIED using the "built-in" conversion facility of COBOL-to-Java or vice versa for "IBM Hex" to/from "IEEE" floating point and had any problems with it? If so what were the problems and what (if anything) did IBM support say about it? It is my impression that there is MINIMAL (but possibly some) performance impact by this, but from an application programmer perspective this conversion is TOTALLY transparent and requires no application logic (much less Assembler or C/C++ subroutines to do any of the work for you). If I am in error on my understanding of this "built-in" facility, I would really like to hear about real world problems with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
