Re: how to create unsigned hexadecimal initial value

From: <rjd@us.ibm.com>
> In my opinion, the PRM is working as designed 

an even simpler example:

DCL DD XX CHAR(2) INIT(X'0000');              
CPYBLA XX,H'0003';  /* GIVES 0300, WRONG */   
CVTHC MSG-TEXT(1:4), XX;                      
CALLI SHOW-MESSAGE, *, .SHOW-MESSAGE;         
                                              
CPYBLA XX,X'0003';  /* GIVES 0003, OK */      
CVTHC MSG-TEXT(1:4), XX;                      
CALLI SHOW-MESSAGE, *, .SHOW-MESSAGE;         
                                              
RTX *;                                        
%INCLUDE SHOWMSG                              

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