Comparing national numeric and other numeric operands

National numeric operands (national decimal and national floating-point operands) are data items of class numeric that have USAGE NATIONAL.

About this task

You can compare the algebraic values of numeric operands regardless of their USAGE. Thus you can compare a national decimal item or a national floating-point item with a binary item, an internal-decimal item, a zoned decimal item, a display floating-point item, or any other numeric item.

Related references  
General relation conditions (COBOL for Linux® on x86 Language Reference)