in reply to EBCDIC & COMP-3 *shriek*

Now that I am at home, and I can find my PoO (Principles of Operations, the IBM OS/360 Archecture Definition Document), here is the real poop --

Chapter 8.0 -- Decimal Instructions

There is a PDF available from http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/DZ9ZBK02

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I Go Back to Sleep, Now.

OGB

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