Why we are using comp and comp-3 in real time projects?

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Why we are using comp and comp-3 in real time projects?..

Answer / harsha

Mostly COMP is used for counter fields or for Subscripts.
COMP-3 is mostly used in all sort of arithmatic
calculations.

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Why we are using comp and comp-3 in real time projects?..

Answer / adarsh

to reduce memory usage

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Why we are using comp and comp-3 in real time projects?..

Answer / wing

Processing speed

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Why we are using comp and comp-3 in real time projects?..

Answer / vish

In DB2 SQL copybooks

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