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abin
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Hi,
I have two variables with following definition
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01 WS-COMP3 PIC 9(006) COMP-3.
01 WS-ALPHA PIC X(006) VALUE SPACES. |
The following code is working without any issues.
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| MOVE WS-ALPHA TO WS-COMP3 |
Could some body please explain this behaviour. I'm using COBOL for OS/390 & VM RELEASE 2.2 PP 5648-A25. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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if this is not part of the 'NOT ALLOWED QUESTIONS' it should be.
Abin, this topic was thoroughly trashed last couple of weeks. Same topic. look at the mainframe cobol threads for the last few weeks. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
As Dick B mentioned, this topic has been beaten to death recently (as well as in the past).
The following is a bit of a heads-up on posting style:
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| The following code is working without any issues. |
Does this simply mean that there is no abend? What have you done to verify that it "works"? Posting the actual verification results for this type of question is more useful than saying "it works".
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| Could some body please explain this behaviour. |
If it is working, what behaviour needs an explanation?
The way you present your question quite often determines how many replies are posted and how useful they are. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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abin
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Hi All,
Thanks for the comments and sorry for not serachig the past post. When somebody showed me that you can actually move alpha values into a comp-3, i practically went mad.
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| Does this simply mean that there is no abend? What have you done to verify that it "works"? Posting the actual verification results for this type of question is more useful than saying "it works". |
What I meant by it is working fine is it is not abending. this made me crazy and when I saw that when alpha is moved to comp-3 and comp-3 is getting some numeric value i bacame more mad  . Now I know the reason. And I'm reading simillar posts.
Thanks for the help  |
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Anuj Dhawan
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Hi,
Not to worry..BTW
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| i practically went mad. |
how are you now.. |
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abin
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Hi Anuj,
Now I'm relieved  |
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