HELP: Convert floating point data type TYPE: OBJECT SYNTAX: FLOAT(FROM(FORMAT.{BIN(TYPE=SYSTEM,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL)/BCD(SIGNED,TYPE=UNPACKED/PACKED/ZONED,ZONE=ANY/ASCII/EBCDIC,FRACDIGITS=num)/INT(FRACDIGITS=num,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W32/W64)/STR(CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,SEPARATOR=SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/APOSTROPHE,GROUPSEPARATOR/MARKER=num/NON/OFF/SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/SPACE/APOSTROPHE,VALUE='str',ALLOWTRUNC)},MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MINEXCL,MAXEXCL),TO(FORMAT.{BIN(TYPE=SYSTEM,ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W32/W64)/BCD(SIGNED,TYPE=UNPACKED/PACKED/ZONED,ZONE=SYSTEM/ASCII/EBCDIC,INTDIGITS=num,FRACDIGITS=num,ROUNDING[=AWAYFROMZERO/NEAREST/TOWARDZERO/ERROR],BYTES=num)/INT(FRACDIGITS=num,ROUNDING[=AWAYFROMZERO/NEAREST/TOWARDZERO/ERROR],ENDIAN=SYSTEM/BIG/LITTLE/LOCAL,WIDTH=num/W32/W64)/STR(CHRSET=NONE/SYSTEM/ASCII/UCS1/UTF8/EBCDIC/UCS2BE/UTF16BE/UCS2LE/UTF16LE/UCS4BE/UTF32BE/UCS4LE/UTF32LE/LOCAL,SIGN=IFNEGATIVE/SPACEIFPOSITIVE/PLUSIFPOSITIVE,INTDIGITS=num,SEPARATOR=SYSTEM/PERIOD/COMMA/APOSTROPHE,FRACDIGITS=num,ROUNDING[=AWAYFROMZERO/NEAREST/TOWARDZERO/ERROR],FIXEDLENGTH=num,PADDING=NONE/RIGHT/LEFT,PADCHAR='bin'/BINARY-ZERO/ASCII-BLANK/EBCDIC-BLANK/UTF08-BLANK/UTF16BE-BLANK/UTF16LE-BLANK/UTF32BE-BLANK/UTF32LE-BLANK,VALUE='str',NULLTERM,USEEID)},MINIMUM='str',MAXIMUM='str',MINEXCL,MAXEXCL))
The conversion object of a floating point data type allows to convert from an external data representation to another external data representation.