wht is packed decimal in cobol

Answer Posted / naagju

Packed decimal is nothing but COMP3..

which occupies half byte for a character n half byte for sign.

Ex.01 name pic x(10) value 'sivaNaagju'

which occupies only 5 bytes.

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