You can compare national (UTF-16) data, that is, national literals and data items that have USAGE NATIONAL (whether of class national or class numeric), explicitly or implicitly with other kinds of data in relation conditions.
You can code conditional expressions that use national data in the following statements:
The following sections provide an overview about comparing national data to other data items. For full details, see the related references.
related tasks
Comparing two class national operands
Comparing class national and class numeric operands
Comparing national numeric and other numeric operands
Comparing national character-string and other character-string operands
Comparing national data and alphanumeric-group operands
related references
Relation conditions
(COBOL for Windows Language Reference)
General relation conditions
(COBOL for Windows Language Reference)
National comparisons
(COBOL for Windows Language Reference)
Group comparisons
(COBOL for Windows Language Reference)