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Data item is stored in packed decimal format in COMP-3. Packed-decimal format means that each byte of storage (except for the low order byte) can contain two decimal numbers. The low-order byte contains one digit in the leftmost portion and the sign (positive or negative) in the rightmost portion. ...

How comp, comp-1 ... comp-5 are implemented is implementation dependent. Format Normal Implementation Comp Big endian binary integer Comp-1 4 byte floating point Comp-2 8 byte floating point Comp-3 Packed decimal 123 is stored as x'123c' Comp-5 Binary In...