National numeric operands (national decimal and national floating-point operands) are data items of class numeric that have USAGE NATIONAL.
You can compare the algebraic values of numeric operands regardless of their USAGE. Thus you can compare a national decimal item or a national floating-point item with a binary item, an internal-decimal item, a zoned decimal item, a display floating-point item, or any other numeric item.
related tasks
Defining national numeric data items
related references
General relation conditions (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)