Conversion of a field from floating point to packed decimal, zoned decimal, or binary in DDS

If you are converting a floating-point field (in a physical file) to a packed decimal, zoned decimal, or binary field (in a logical file), you must explicitly specify the length and decimal positions. When converting floating-point data to fixed-point format, make sure that the values you specify for length and decimal positions are large enough to accommodate the data.

Physical file length and decimal positions are presentation values only and do not indicate the magnitude of the number.