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.