163 error - moving leading-space data to a numeric field

13 years ago
Feb 15, 2013 10:45 PM UTC
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Dominique Sacre
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Problem:

Mainframe code fails in MFE

user is moving a 2-byte alpha to a numeric field. x'40F9'

Mainframe treats the space as a zero.

Resolution:

The directive that cures this is SIGN-FIXUP.

Old KB# 4151

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