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Re: CVTCH run problem

From: Harry Williams <planesmart@teleteam.net>
>
> ENTRY *  ;
> DCL DD FST CHAR(1) ;
> DCL DD SCD CHR(2) ;
> CPYBLA  FST,'H';
> CVTCH SCD(1:2) , FST(1:1) ;
> RTX *;
>
> I get
> Scaler data cannot be changed to the type required by instruction  MCH1201
>
> Any Suggestions?

Harry,
You have been misled by the operation code:
Convert Characters to Hex CVTCH

What you wanted was
Convert Hex to Characters CVTHC.

What IBM meant with 'hex' is just binary, not the
character hexadecimal representation.

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