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Created on Aug 31, 2018

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Support for Cobol Decimal fields 9(x).9(y)

We require support for the mapping of real decimal fields in Cobol -- in the form of PIC 9(x).9(y)..

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 15, 2023

    Thank you for raising this Idea.
    This is now supported in OpenAPI 3 when an API document describes a number with format decimal. For example:


    outboundDecimalNumber:

    multipleOf : 0.01

    minimum : 0000000.01

    maximum : 9999999.99

    type : number

    format : decimal


    In this example, outboundDecimalNumber is part of a response payload and therefore this response field was mapped in Designer from a COBOL copybook that defines the data as a Real Decimal, e.g:



    01 DFHCOMMAREA.

    03 RealDecimal.

    .....

    06 realDecimalNumber PIC +9(7).9(2).


    To ensure that outboundDecimalNumber is returned from the API as a number, and not a string, the following JSONata expression must currently be used in the response mapping:


    $number(realDecimalNumber)

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