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Hello,

The posted data has been "Code'd" and the data does Not have a packed decimal sign every 4 bytes.

It might be mixed. This totally depends on the creation of the file.

If you look at your Cobol layout, all those that are PIC S9... are signed, all those that are PIC 9... are not.

There is a tricky area you have to check on, since you are going to be converting the data: does the data "conform to PICture". Ie, if the PIC is S9... does the data contain a C/D as the low-order half-byte, and if PIC 9... does the data contain F as the low-order half byte. It is important to know - if the data does not "conform to PICture" now, it might after you "convert", and that might have consequences.