Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

I'm involved in coding a program which has got a web based interface. The input from web will be taken in variable WEB-IN with PIC X(7). In the program I need to compare this with a working storage variable WS-AMOUNT, it is defined as PIC S9(3)v9(3) comp-3.

Assume, WEB-IN has the value 123.456, can someone please tell me how to compare an alphanumeric with comp-3 variable now?

Use intrinsic function NUMVAL to convert WEB-IN into a numeric PIC S9(03)V9(03) variable, then do the comparison.

Thanks, this has helped.