We use Micro focus mainframe express for our development work in
COBOL, recently I came across a copybook which had datatype of variables
defined as COMP-X. Please see below code for reference.
05 FCD-FILE-STATUS.
10 FCD-STATUS-KEY-1 PIC X.
10 FCD-STATUS-KEY-2 PIC X.
10 FCD-BINARY REDEFINES FCD-STATUS-KEY-2
PIC 99 COMP-X.
As far as I know, I dont think regular COBOL which runs on mainframe uses
this datatype.
I would be grateful if someone can explain what is COMP-X datatype and if
COBOL for OS/390 uses this?
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