SET character column value to hex

I've tried googling around for a solution and have not found anything straightforward (or any solution for that matter) so I thought I'd try here as a last resort (before I'm forced to write a program).

I have a table column defined as CHAR(42) which, in an RPG program data structure, is redefined as an 14 element array with the individual elements defined as PACKED(5,0).

If you did this:

SELECT HEX(field)
FROM mytable
WHERE condition

it would look something like this:

00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F00000F

were all the elements = 0.

I'd like to be able to do something like this (I know the syntax is wrong, but maybe you get the idea):

UPDATE mytable
SET field = HEX('12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F12345F')
WHERE condition

Is this even possible?

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