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Re: Passing a packed field into a command string

I don't see why not. For example (assuming CCSID 37) for a
packed(3:0) with value 146 you would have x'146F', right? Viewed as
characters that would be an SO and '?'.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given that SO (X'14') and SI (X'15') can't occur in a packed number, the technique I described of using a DS to "convert" packed to character would appear to be a valid approach. But as you note it wouldn't work for an integer.




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