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I have two field on my input record that are in packed decimal format(2 decimal positions) one is 9(5)v99 and the other is 9(3)v99, my output record i would like to get the value of FLD2 subtracted from FLD1 in packed decimal format 9(5)v99, is this possible with syncsort. Any examples would be apprcieated.

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Found the solution after playing around with the various options. Hope I didn't waste anyone's time on this one.

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FYI:

The formats like 9(5)V99 et.al. are all UNPACKED (or ZONED) DECIMALS, rather than PACKED DECIMALS.