S370FRBw.d Informat

Reads real binary (floating-point) data in IBM mainframe format.

Category:	Numeric
Interaction:	List input is incompatible with binary input when this informat is specified in an INFORMAT= statement or an ATTRIB= statement using the INFORMAT= argument. SAS issues a warning and uses formatted input to read the data.

Syntax

S370FRBw.d

specifies the width of the input field.

Default	6
Range	2–8

specifies the power of 10 by which to divide the value. This argument is optional.

Range

0–10

Real binary values are represented in two parts: a mantissa that gives the value, and an exponent that gives the value's magnitude.

Use S370FRBw.d to read real binary data from IBM mainframe files on other operating environments.

The following table shows the equivalent real binary notation for several programming languages: