You've been reading too many dumps, Tracy :-)
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Eloquence and COBOL migration
01 little 02, little 03 little endians,
04 little 05, little 06 little endians,
07 little 08, little 09 little endians,
0A little 0B, little 0C little endians,
0D little 0E, little 0F little endian bytes!
Tracy Johnson
Business Analyst
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
1000 Lucas Way
Hampton, VA 23666
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Anderson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Eloquence and COBOL migration
>
> When porting data from Turbo Image to Eloquence on Windows, does
> Eloquence change the bit order to "Little Indian" to make Windows
> programs happy?
>
> Or is it the Eloquence DBGET on Windows that flips's the bits around?
>
> The HP3000 (or PA-RISC) is referred to as "BIG Indian". Bits are
> layout right-to-left.
>
> Windows (Or Intel) is referred to as "Little Indian".
> Bits are layout left-to-right.
>
> Newer COBOL compilers have a COMP-5 data items that refers to the
> "Little Indian" or "BIG Indian" depending on the machine where the
> program is running, and COMP is the "BIG Indian bit order" only,
> correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I moved an HP3000 COBOL Program to Windows; I changed all the COMP
> fields to COMP-5 fields, compiled (ACU COBOL) and ran it.
>
> The Image data that this program needs was migrated to Eloquence on
> Windows and HPUX.
>
> The program is using COMP-5 in the database buffers, why is it (while
> running on Windows) correctly reading data from a Big Indian machine
> as well as the Little Indian machine. When I change the COMP-5 fields
> to COMP it reads computation data incorrectly from the database on
> both machines.
> It must be the Eloquence DBGET that flips's the bits on the fly.
>
> I think the database is storing data in the big Indian format, on
> Windows and HPUX, same as it was on MPE. But is there is a method to
> change/control this craziness.
>
> Mike Anderson
> 832-515.3868
>
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