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: but does NOT properly translate ANY of the packed decimal fields in
: EBCDIC to numeric-edited fields in ASCII.  Using FCOPY I have verified
: that the fields I'm looking for are still in the proper
: packed decimal EBCDIC form.  My mainframe people are convinced that this
: situation is a compiler bug.

: A example of a field is below:
: Input field defined as PIC S9(9) COMP-3 in HEX:  049484071C
: Output field defined as PIC +9(9) in ASCII:           +9<6=647?1
: John Hornberger

No translation of the field is necessary.  COBOLII/iX can operate directly
on that COMP-3 field.  You can convert that field if you want.
Make sure you don't convert it from EBCDIC to ASCII before you operate
on it.

Of course, I have no idea how the IBMVBS utility works.