Why do we use COMP-3 variables for computation, when we know that they are non displayable fields and require additional MOVE to numeric field before we populate it in output Reports?



Why do we use COMP-3 variables for computation, when we know that they are non displayable fields an..

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COMP-3 fields take less memory allocation and effective in computation.

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