B
Datatype Support

The Oracle Application Server Integration Adapter for CICS supports a number of datatypes that are used when defining metadata in Oracle Studio. The datatypes are mapped from the COBOL datatypes during the import procedure.

Note: The mapping of datatypes between Oracle Application Server Integration Adapter for CICS and Oracle Application Server ProcessConnect is performed internally by Oracle Connect for CICS.

This appendix contains the following section:

• Datatype Mapping

Datatype Mapping

The COBOL datatype COMP, in the table is an abbreviation for, and synonymous with, COMPUTATIONAL. Square brackets ([ ]) denote optional qualifiers for some COBOL compilers, which may not be allowed for other COBOL compilers.

Table B-1  Datatype Mapping: COBOL and Oracle Connect for CICS

COBOL Datatype	Oracle Connect Datatype
BINARY (with fractional data)	string
BINARY (without fractional data)	int
COMP (with fractional data)	string
COMP (without fractional data)	int
COMP-2	double
COMP-3	string
COMP-4 (with fractional data)	string
COMP-4 (without fractional data)	int
COMP-5 (with fractional data)	string
COMP-5 (without fractional data)	int
COMP-X (with fractional data)	string
COMP-X (without fractional data)	int
INDEX	int
[SIGN [IS]] LEADING	string
[SIGN [IS]] LEADING SEPARATE [CHARACTER]	string
NATIVE-2	int
NATIVE-4	int
NATIVE-8	string
PACKED-DECIMAL	string
POINTER	int
[SIGN [IS]] TRAILING	string
[SIGN [IS]] TRAILING SEPARATE [CHARACTER]	string