when COMP-3 is preferrable?

Answer Posted / sunny kalra

Also, if you need more than 18 decimal digits, you must use COMP-3 (or DISPLAY) as COMP variables cannot exceed 18 digits while COMP-3 can be up to 31 digits.

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