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COBOL - APAR PH09682: ZONEDATA(NOPFD) DIFFERING RESULTS ON A MOVE WITH INVALID DATA - example?

  • 1.  COBOL - APAR PH09682: ZONEDATA(NOPFD) DIFFERING RESULTS ON A MOVE WITH INVALID DATA - example?

    Posted Wed February 12, 2020 10:59 AM
    ​At our site we are planning on installing the fix in for this APAR.
    We are at COBOL V6.2 and some of our COBOL programs were compiled with ZONEDATA(NOPFD) because of invalid data issues.

    The APAR states: "the compiler doesn't guarantee the same behaviour as older versions for invalid data, the new instructions produced
    different results when non-numeric data was used."

    I want to know if we are at risk with our current V6.2-compiled ZONEDATA(NOFD) COBOL programs but I don't know what to look for.
    Can someone give me an example of this "different results situation"?

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    René Beurskens
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  • 2.  RE: COBOL - APAR PH09682: ZONEDATA(NOPFD) DIFFERING RESULTS ON A MOVE WITH INVALID DATA - example?

    Posted Mon May 11, 2020 10:54 AM
    This is a duplicate post. Please refer to this one where the question was answered.  Thanks.

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    Linda Chui
    IBM Canada
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