Encoding Schemas and Numeric Integrity 
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1. Encoding Schemas
1.1. Mainframe Systems are EBCDIC oriented
1.2. Linux, UNIX and Windows are ASCII oriented
1.3. Mainframe Systems are EBCDIC oriented
1.3.1. Sequence of Data (Collating Sequence) is different
1.3.2. Numeric Fields & Signed, Zoned-Decimal Format
2. A Variety of Numeric Formats
3. Documentation and Test Cases
3.1. EBCDIC-ASCII Encoding Schemas
3.2. Numeric Format Considerations
3.2.1. Binary (or COMP)
3.2.2. Edited Numeric Text String
3.2.3. Packed (or COMP-3)
3.2.4. Zoned Decimal
3.3. Impact of Collating Sequences

 

 

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