[sqr-users] Revenge of the mainframe (aka comp3)

["the dragon" <ceprn@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have an unusual (well, for me anyway) task to perform at the client I am 
at.  We are running Financials v8.x with the database being udb (v7.2?) on a 
mainframe (OS/390).  I am creating an sqr which will read an ascii file, 
perform some validation and data massaging and then creating an output file 
to be used as input for a cobol program.  The challenge - some of the fields 
are *number* and defined in the copy book as comp and comp-3, which I 
understand to be packed decimal.  How do I go about creating these 
mysterious little beasties?

I read through the archive list and the best I could come up with is "sqr 
doesn't do this, build comething in another langauge and call it" from 2000. 
  I was wondering if anyone has anything newer to add about this issue that 
might be of a more positive aspect?

thanks in advance

clark 'the dragon' willis
dragon enterprises, consulting services

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