Re: Rounding on Mainframe

["Wanko, Christopher" <cwanko@GRENET.ATT.COM>]

>The problem is this. When the report is run on the mainframe,
>some rows are being marked with asterisks, which means
>they are falling through the above IF statement, even though
>the printed values add up! When the same report is run
>on the NT client, the same rows are not marked.
>
>I attribute this to the way the mainframe stores and handles
>floating point numbers. Has anyone else experienced something
>like this?

You don't say what your mainframe "is".  Are you running MVS or VM?
Is it using packed-decimal, binary, computational-3, text for the
numbers?
You need to help us help you.

-Chris