Moving Null value

anandinmainframe · Active User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 171 Location: India

Hi all,
i want to move null value to an output where the output field is defined as a binary which is decalred as follows
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Santoshdorge · New User Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Pune

I guess you want to do this in your cobol DB2 program.
This can be done by moving -1 to null indicator field.

Thanks,
Santosh.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:37 pm

Hello,

There is no "null value", so it cannot be moved.

You could move zeros to the field and the content would be all 0s, but that is not null.

anandinmainframe · Active User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 171 Location: India

Hi,
Thank you all for your support
i did the same told by dick.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:06 pm

Good to hear you have a solution - thanks for letting us know

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