Spaces to COMP-3 field in Mainframe

svga · Post by **svga** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:05 am

Hi,

Is it possible to populated spaces to COMP-3 field? Thanks

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:00 am

Technically Yes. Functionally No.

What do you want to do ?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:14 am

In COBOL it would involve a REDEFINES and you'd end up with a number like 202020.20 or some such. Or 404040.40, depending on the ascii versus ebcdicness of it, from what I recall.

svga · Post by **svga** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:46 am

The target datatype is S999 COMP-3. I need to move spaces to this field

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:14 pm

Why? Spaces is not valid as COMP-3. Read again the advice above. It can only work if you re-define the field as something that will take spaces, typically PIC X(n).