What is the difference in data type "X" and "P"?
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Answer / sourav
X is used for Hexadecimal fields where as P is for Packed
decimal. X denotes alphanumeric in COBOL, not in MVS ASM.
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Answer / guest
X is used for hexa decimal values, but the packed decimal
mainly used for date purpose and to have the values with
positive and negative
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Answer / saurabh biswas
In MVS assembler data type X denotes hexadecimal data type
which unsigned pack. suppose you define VAR1 as "VAR1 DC
X'01'". It will occupy 1 byte in the memory and stored as:
0 in the zoned nibble and 1 in the numeric nibble.
P denotes the packed data type, similar to COMP-3 in COBOL.
if you declare any variable with this data type then it
must have a sign byte at last nibble. See following example:
VAR2 DC P'1'
it will occupy one byte in the memory and stored as '1C'.
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Answer / guru
X is used for Hexadecimal fields where as P is for Packed
decimal.X store in a full word where as Packed has half
word boundry.
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Answer / bhanu prathap
X is used for Alphanumeric and P is used for Packed Decimal.
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