Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

I'm in a new project. I see a 'SPECIAL-NAME' used in the program, like this:
I've not seen this in the previous project. I've compiled the program without it and it was all fine then what's te use of this in the program?

A good place to discover what it does is the Enterprise COBOL manuals.

The reason for this is that many (all, I don't know) countries in Continental Europe, at least, don't write their numbers properly :-)

Whereas the absolute proper way to do it is*:
They choose instead to write:
Where the roles of the full-stop and comma are reversed. DECIMAL POINT IS COMMA is how you get COBOL to give the output in the correct format.

* this bit is just a joke

Thanks William. Yes, you are correct. I used to work for a US client before while now I work for a European client and found this new.

Thank you!