EGL Reference Guide for iSeries

positiveSignIndicator

The build descriptor option positiveSignIndicator specifies the character that the iSeries-based ILE COBOL compiler uses as the positive sign for numeric data of types DECIMAL, NUM, NUMC, and PACF. You can specify the value F or C.

The default value is F. If your code includes more occurrences of items that are of type NUMC and DECIMAL (as compared to items of type NUM and PACKF), you can improve performance by setting positiveSignIndicator to C.


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