How to declare a Signed COMP-3 in CLP?

[Finding.Beanie]

I have a variable in cobol program which is declared as S9(08) COMP-3. How will I declare the same type in CLP? I tried *DEC, *UINT and *INT but I cannot make it to work.

in the CLP, I am calling a program that should be passed like this.
CALL PGM(mypgm) PARM(‘someparm’ X’000000499F’)

if it is hardcoded, there is no problem. But when i substitute the X’000000499F’ into a variable, an error occurs.

Here’s what I tried:
dcl var(&jobnum) type(*dec) len(8)
dcl var(&jobnum) type(*int) len(8)
dcl var(&jobnum) type(*uint) len(8)

[Peder Udesen]

COMP-3 is a packed format. The X’000000499F’ literal also reveals this.

Thus
dcl var(&jobnum) type(*dec) len(8)
should work.

What error do you get?
How do you put a value in &JOBNUM ?
What value does the parameter in the cobol program have when you are debugging it?

A little more information would be helpfull

[Peder Udesen]

Did you find out what the problem was ?