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I've a zoned 8,0 that is being MOVEd to a packed 6,0. I want to convert this to free form.

I can think of putting the zoned 8,0 into a data structure with a zoned 6,0 overlaying the last 6 positions, then use an assignment statement.

In the following, I wanted to use CNVDAT instead of CNVDT8. That can work with fields from a file, didn't work so far, so will use an assignment of CNVDT8 = CNVDAT for now.

* Allow "MOVE" of 8-digit ot 6-digiy
D DATE8TO6 DS
D CNVDT8 8s 0
D CNVDT6 6S 0 overlay(DATE8TO6 : 3)

Then CNVDT6 should have the value I want - this is 8-digit dates to 6-digit in YMD format.

Is there a better way? I looked at several articles - Bob Cozzi, Jon Paris, some other forums - none that I saw dealt with the MOVE from a longer numeric to shorter.

TIA
Vern

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