Date:         Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:20:07 GMT
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From:         Paul Dorfman <paul_dorfman@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Informat Question
Comments: To: ALiving103@AOL.COM
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"Arthur D. Livingston" <ALiving103@AOL.COM> wrote:

>Does anyone know the SAS informat for PIC S99V9?  I have not been >abole to
>find it in the SAS manuals.  I am working with a variable >block file with
>trailers and the data that I need is located in a >trailer portion of the
>file.  Also the record layout says the field >has a length of 2 and the
>record type is SN.

Arthur,

If must have 2 record layouts: One is a COBOL copybook where you find the
PIC, and some other sort of description where SN (I can only guess) might
stand for signed numeric. However, if the PIC S99V9 is not followed by
anything, most notably, comp-3, the layouts contradict each other, and here
is why. S99V9 is then a zoned decimal field, and even though the sign is
combined with the last digit as a single character in the rightmost byte, it
will still occupy 3 bytes. The corresponding SAS informat is ZD3.1, or
S370FZD3.1, if the data have been written on the real computer but are read
elsewhere. If the picture is followed by comp-3, then it takes only 2 bytes,
indeed, with the sign (C standing for plus, D - for minus) occupying the
rightmost nibble. For example, if the number is +123 and you browse the
field using the hex mode in ISPF, you will see

13
2C

If this is the case, use the informat PD3.1 or S370PD3.1 .

Kind regards,
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Paul M. Dorfman
Jacksonville, Fl
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