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>> It doesn't work to base a variable on a data pointer.
>> You base the variable in PROGRAM-B on a space pointer,
>> as usual, and then set that space pointer to the data
>> pointer's value:
>>
>> SetSppFp     Space-Pointer, Data-Pointer;


True but even simpler use the resolved data pointer variable in operand 2
in a CPY*** instruction for example:

dcl dtaptr MyDtaPtr;
dcl dd     Packed92  pkd(9,2);

rslvdp MyDtaPtr, "MY_PKD92_VARIABLE_NAME", ProgramA;
cpynv  Packed92, MyDtaPtr;


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