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rinkubhat
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| Shouldnt a program abend If I have defined a field name as PIC 9(2) in program and in the file i have alphabetic field in this particular place |
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superk
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| No, it shouldn't. |
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rinkubhat
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Marso
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As long as it is just stored there, nothing will happen.
If it's part of a record you've read, for example, you can write it back, it will work.
Problems will start if you try to directly access the invalid data.
Some commands [executed on the invalid value] will generate an abend, and some will not.
It depends on the command itself and the value(s) in storage. |
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calspach
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| Yep, you can define your entire record as pic 9(80) or something and read it, move it to a different record, whatever you want. As long as you don't try some type of arithmetic on it, or I think try to display it, it will be fine. It's not the move that will make it abend, it's referencing the data that will become a problem. |
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