S370FIBw.d Informat

Reads integer binary (fixed-point) values, including negative values, in IBM mainframe format.

Category: Numeric
Interaction: List input is incompatible with binary input when this informat is specified in an INFORMAT= statement or an ATTRIB= statement using the INFORMAT= argument. SAS issues a warning and uses formatted input to read the data.
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Syntax

S370FIBw.d

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default 4
Range 1–8

d

specifies the power of 10 by which to divide the value. This argument is optional.

Range 0–10

Details

The S370FIBw.d informat reads integer binary (fixed-point) values that are stored in IBM mainframe format, including negative values that are represented in two's complement notation. S370FIBw.d reads integer binary values with consistent results if the values are created in the same type of operating environment that you use to run SAS.
Use S370FIBw.d for integer binary data that are created in IBM mainframe format for reading in other operating environments.
Note: Different operating environments store integer binary values in different ways. This concept is called byte ordering. For a detailed discussion about byte ordering, see Byte Ordering for Integer Binary Data on Big Endian and Little Endian Platforms .

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Example

You can use the INPUT statement and specify the S370FIB informat. However, this example uses the informat with the INPUT function, where the binary input value is described by using a hexadecimal literal. 
x=input('0080'x,s370fib2.);
SAS Statement
Result
 
put x=;
 
128

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Informats
S370FIBUw.d Informat
S370FPIBw.d Informat
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