HOST-NUMCOMPARE

Controls the operation of comparisons between integer numeric data items of USAGE DISPLAY and alphanumeric literals, figurative constants, or numeric operands.

Syntax:
>>--.---.--.----.--HOST-NUMCOMPARE------><
    +-/-+  +-NO-+
Parameters:

None

Properties:
Default: NOHOST-NUMCOMPARE
Phase: Syntax check
$SET: Any
Comments:

This directive is provided to improve compatibility with IBM mainframe compilers, resulting in a run-time error 163 ("Illegal character in numeric field") in cases where a S0C7 would have occurred on the mainframe.

Setting HOST-NUMCOMPARE improves compatibility with IBM mainframe compilers for a subset of IF statements when comparing numeric data items with numeric data items or numeric literals.

It is not possible to guarantee 100% compatibility with the IBM mainframe behavior, but setting HOST-NUMCOMPARE does provide emulation for the most common cases.

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