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On 16-Jun-2015 12:19 -0600, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
It sounds oxymoronic.

What exactly is a "Binary Character" field?
"5" instead of "A" in the DDS;

AFaIK: In DDS specification, I believe that would be: "H" instead of "A". Probably also the same effect [a Binary Character field] is seen for a field defined with the [resolved] field-level keyword of CCSID and the specification of 65535 [or possibly the special-value *HEX, if supported].

"5" instead of "A" returned by QUSLFLD, but what . . . is . . . it?


Both the DDS data type H or SQL CHAR FOR BIT DATA are implemented as a /shift/ data type whereby an effective [but non-existent\imaginary] keyboard shift denotes data-type restrictions\characteristics; the term is borrowed from other /shifts/ such as forced-upper from CapsLock and the Double-Byte mode shift. The /hexadecimal/ shifted type suggests that any character data that is entered into the field must not get translated according to the character encoding or code page associated with the Record Format [that instead may come\resolve from the value for the File].


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