Definition of PIC S9(4) COMP Integer
A 16-bit COBOL data type that represents signed arithmetic operations occupying 2 bytes of storage, and can take on values from -9999 to +9999 or -32768 to +32767. A PIC S9(4) COMP integer is normally analogous to an Integer data type in Microsoft-© Visual Basic-© and a Short Integer in C when referring to 32-bit.
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