Boris Kortiak wrote:

> Anyway, my question is: has anyone written a routine in JCL to convert numbers between various bases?  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this?

well, the 'calc' function almost sorta kinda does what you want....

:calc 16
16, $10, %20
:calc 200006281604
      ^
Integer overflow in the expression. (CIERR 9740)

hmmm, could you bust the big number into littler pieces and pin everything together?  it's a thought....             - d

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