Problem:

If migrating a mainframe appliction where initialization of data items may not have been required, you may have numeric fields in the REPORT SECTION that will print as spaces instead of zero unless a numeric value has been moved to them.

For example, if a numeric field used to store a total has not updated since the program started it may be assumed that this would physically print as zero (i.e. 0) when it will actually print as spaces.

This will only occur on programs compiled to any form of object code - i.e. .gnt, .o, .so and .exe. It will print 0 if using .int code and therefore may not be picked up during testing.

Resolution:

Use the HOST-NUMMOVE compiler directive.