This Natural profile and session parameter determines the character to be used as decimal separator, that is, a point or a comma.
Possible settings | any special character | The character assigned to
DC will be in effect for all notations where a decimal
separator is possible; that is, variables, constants and edit masks.
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Default setting | . (period)
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Dynamic specification | yes | |||
Specification within session | yes | Applicable statement: | SET
GLOBALS |
Parameter is evaluated at runtime. |
Applicable command: | GLOBALS |
Parameter may be specified dynamically with the
GLOBALS system command.
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Application programming interface | USR1005N |
See SYSEXT - Natural Application Programming Interfaces in the Utilities documentation. |
Notes:
DC
parameter
must not be the same as the one specified with the IA
(input assign character) or
ID
(input delimiter
character) parameter. In addition, we recommend that this character is not the
same as the one specified with the CF
(control character for
terminal commands) or HI
(help
character) parameter.
DC
in your
parameter file, you must resave the DDM you are using in your Natural program
which stores a new .NSD file on disk.
DC
can be overridden by the session parameter
DC
.