IBM Mainframe Forum

+1 is stored in the first two bytes. Why doesn't it displays that in Var2.

That is what this shows:VAR2 is a 2-byte variable, with the first byte having X'00' and the second byte having X'01' -- the two, together, make a +1. If you do not understand why this is so, you need to click on the IBM Manuals link at the top of this page, open the COBOL Programming Guide manual, and read section 1.3.4.7 on internal representation of numeric variables.