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Hex form in cobol

Postby Praveen5526 » Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:12 pm

I have hex form 102D and what is the actual value? how we can find it?
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:14 pm

see here for all You might want to know about number representation

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0504121320
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby Robert Sample » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:25 am

You DO realize, I hope, that there is more than one answer to your question? The answer depends upon the USAGE clause for the variable in question. If the variable is COMP-3, the value is negative. If the variable is COMP, the value is positive. The actual values you can find, if you follow enrico's link.
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby BillyBoyo » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:16 am

That's the very first sections in chapters 7 and 8 from enrico's post.

Why can't you find how the field is defined which gives you that value? That will help you a lot.
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby Praveen5526 » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:03 pm

1 ===== 4096
0 ===== 0
2 ===== 32
D ===== ( - )Negative
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actual value = - 4128


Correct me if I am wrong.
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby enrico-sorichetti » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:09 pm

You are wrong :geek:
( hint... You are mixing binary and packed representations )

review for the umpteenth time the packed concepts in the manual I pointed You to
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby Robert Sample » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:35 pm

You are wrong. The value of those hexadecimal digits is either -102 or +4141, depending.
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby BillyBoyo » Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:58 pm

What is the source of your hex value? When you see that in "memory" or a dump somewhere, it is not necessarily even "a number". It could be an instruction. It could be a chunk of storage that contains that value for some reason (it could be two individual bytes whose values are related, or unrelated, one byte may just contain a bit pattern, or any number of things). You might have picked up part of an address, so the "value" is actually longer, and you don't know where that value is, so can't know what it represents.

In short, to tell what "value" a particular hex representation has, you have to know specifically how it is used in that particular instance.

You can't look at a hex value in isolation and say "that has this value in decimal" because what you are looking at may be the hex of something you've previously seen as a numeric value, but in this case turns out not to be any sort of "number" at all.
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Re: Hex form in cobol

Postby Praveen5526 » Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:56 pm

I got it now.. Thank u all. Thank u somuch
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