Rational Developer for System z
COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Comparing national numeric and other numeric operands

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 (COBOL for Windows Language Reference)


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