Floating-point

Select the check box to specify how the compiler handles floating-point data types.

*NOFLOAT
Floating-point data types are declared as FILLER fields with a USAGE of binary.

*FLOAT
Floating-point data types are brought into the program with their DDS names and a USAGE of COMP-1 (single-precision) or COMP-2 (double-precision). The fields are made accessible to the ILE COBOL source program.