S370FRBw.d Format

Writes real binary (floating-point) data in IBM mainframe format.

Category:	Numeric
Alignment:	left

Syntax

S370FRBw.d

d: specifies to multiply the number by 10^d. This argument is optional.

Default:0

Range:0–10

A floating-point value consists of two parts: a mantissa that gives the value and an exponent that gives the value's magnitude.

Use S370FRBw.d in other operating environments to write floating-point binary data in the same format as on an IBM mainframe computer.

The following table shows the notation for equivalent floating-point formats in several programming languages:

y=put(x,s370frb6.);
put y $hex8.;

Value of `x`	Result 1
128	42800000
-123	C2800000
1The result is a hexadecimal representation of a binary number in zoned decimal format on an IBM mainframe computer. Each two hexadecimal characters correspond to one byte of binary data, and each byte corresponds to one column of the output field.