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smyers@popmail.voicenet.com wrote:

>Packed decimal means 2 decimal digits in each byte, except for the
>last byte, where the last 4 bits are a sign, based on the following
>rule --
>F - +
>E - +
>D - -
>C - +
>B - -
>A - +

I am fully aware of the packed decimal format.

>So, the 4 bytes are 0cyydddF, where F is the sign (a plus).  This is

Where do you find four bytes? Bytes 10-12. Byte 10, byte 11, and byte 12.
When I count, that comes to three bytes, not four bytes.

> <33e67399.691214@news.primenet.com>, mikeq@primenet.com (Michael =
Quinlan) writes:
>>edjaffe@netcom.com (Edward E. Jaffe) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>In OS/390 V1R3.0 ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference, topic
>>>"C.2.4", I see:=3D20
>>>
>>>[------------------------- Begin IBM Documentation =3D
>>----------------------]
>>> C.2.4  ISPF Statistics Entry in a PDS Directory
>>>
>>> [...snipped...]
>>>
>>>   9-12     Date last modified:
>>>
>>>            Byte 9     Reserved for future IBM use
>>>            Byte 10-12 Julian date, in packed decimal format
>>
>>Does this mean that ISPF is not Y2K compliant? 3 packed bytes only =
allows
>>for 5 digits (i.e. the old YY.DDD format). Or does byte 9 have the =3D
>>century
>>indicator?
>
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