To Declare field with double data type u have to declare it with comp-2

I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL
program. how shall i do that ?

Question Posted / tarunam

Answer Posted / tarunam

To Declare field with double data type u have to declare it
with comp-2
eg: PIC s9(8) usage is comp-2

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