SIGN TRAILING SEPARATE field occupy ?

Answer Posted / shinoy sansilavose

it occupies one additional byte when it is specified with
signed variable declaration.

Example:

01 ws-num pic s9(04) sign trailing separate.

move '+1234' to ws-num
then the value will be stored as +1234.

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