Re: Alternatives to MOVEL - just curious

Nothing will perform better than doing nothing - if you see what I mean. Personally if I had to do this I'd wrap it in a nicely named subproc.

On 2013-12-09, at 11:31 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi y'all

I'm looking at some code - the purpose is to put the 1st 4 digits of a
6-digit variable into a 4-digit numeric variable.

It is being done with the MOVEL opcode now.

I'm wondering about efficient alternative methods. One I can think of is
to use a data structure -

dcl-ds dsMoveL qualified;
num4 zoned(4);
num6 zoned(6) pos(1);
end-ds;

Anything simpler? Better performing?

I hope the syntax is right!! But you get the idea, right?

Vern
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