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Full disclosure: "if the picture does not specify that the binary operand is "signed," COBOL will automagically disregard two's complement. (However, not the case here.)
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Re^4: Perl Unpack Cobol Binary File and Fields
by Anonymous Monk on May 06, 2020 at 01:59 UTC
    (The S picture-character indicates a signed value.)