External Display Representation of a Floating-Point Field

See Specifying an External Format for a Numeric Field for a general description of external display representation.

The external display representation of float values applies for the following:

• Output of float data with Data-Format entry blank.
• Input of float data with Data-Format entry blank.
• External format of compile-time and prerun-time arrays and tables (when keyword EXTFMT is omitted).
• Display and input of float values using operation code DSPLY.
• Output of float values on a dump listing.
• Result of built-in function %EDITFLT.