When adding condition items, if you are specifying an Entered numeric value, enter the COBOL numeric literal for the associated value. For example, 489, +12.75, -3.28, or -3.22E+12. The leading sign character is allowed only if the associated data item is signed. The decimal point is allowed only if the associated data item has digits to the right of the decimal point. The exponential notation is allowed only for associated data items with floating point numbers.
An Entered nonnumeric value is specified in the text box as the string of characters against which the conditional variable is to be compared. It is similar to a COBOL nonnumeric literal, except that the delimiting quotes are omitted and embedded quote characters are not doubled (that is, each occurrence of a quote character in the string represents one quote character in the resultant value as opposed to a COBOL nonnumeric literal where each pair of quote characters represents one quote character in the resultant value).