=== on 6 Oct 2016, 12:25:19 Pierre-Yves Nicolas wrote:
This RSPEC will need to define precisely which DB2 types are "compatible" with which COBOL types.

=== on 13 Oct 2016, 13:43:30 Ann Campbell wrote:
\[~pierre-yves.nicolas] take a look at the http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_10.0.0/apsg/src/tpc/db2z_equivalentcoboldatatypes.html[IBM spec] & see if you want to replicate that into the RSpec. Maybe we add that reference to the See section?

=== on 14 Oct 2016, 17:49:12 Pierre-Yves Nicolas wrote:
\[~ann.campbell.2] The IBM spec definitely helps and shows that it would take a long time to cover all possible cases. We should probably focus on the most common cases that we want to catch. The most basic rule is "don't mix numeric with character". We also have to check the length of variables: the "receiving" side should be long enough to store the "sent" value. I'm not sure how we should describe all of that.

=== on 17 Oct 2016, 16:06:22 Ann Campbell wrote:
\[~pierre-yves.nicolas] I've expanded the description slightly

