RE: Retrieving hex chars of a record...

but when I do that, the %subst operation converts all non-displayable

hexadecimal chars to blanks...

No it doesn't.  %Subst will not change anything - it has no awareness of the
data content.  If what you say were true there would be many many programs
that would fail.

Check it out in debug and look at the hex values that way if you don't
believe me.

If you _know_ that the packed data is in position 110 why not simply
redefine it that way in the DS?

Just in case you can't, then here is a generic conversion approach - adjust
the size as needed for different packed field sizes.  You could also build a
completely generic routine based on the same notion.

     D convertDS       DS                  
     D  packedfield                   3P 0 

All you need to do is:

convertDS = %subst(rcd:110:2);

packedField now has the value you want.

You could also play around with pointers etc. but this will do it.

Jon Paris
Partner400

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