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AC
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EBCDIC characters are translated to their ASCII equivalents before
sorting.
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1 to 4091†
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AQ
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Character. Records are sorted according to an alternate sequence
specified either in the ALTSEQ control statement or as an
installation default.
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1 to 4091†
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| ASF |
ASCII signed free format. Decimal digits (0-9) are extracted from
right to left to form a positive or negative number value. A character
of '–' or ')' found within the field will cause the value to be treated
as a negative number. All other non-decimal digit values other than 0-9,
'–' or ')' in the field are ignored. |
1 to 44 |
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ASL
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Leading separate sign. An ASCII + or - precedes numeric field. One
digit per byte.
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2 to 256
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AST
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Trailing separate sign. An ASCII + or - trails numeric field. One
digit per byte.
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2 to 256
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| AUF |
ASCII Unsigned free format. Decimal digits (0-9) are extracted from
right to left to form a positive number value. All non-decimal digit
values in the field are ignored. Any combination of characters is valid,
but characters other than 0-9 are ignored. |
1 to 44 |
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BI
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Binary. Unsigned.
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1 bit to 4092*
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CH
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Character. Unsigned.
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1 to 4092*
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CLO
OL
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Leading overpunch sign. Hexadecimal F,C,E, or A in the first 4 bits
of your field indicates a positive number. Hexadecimal D or B in the
first 4 bits indicates a negative number. One digit per byte.
CMP=CLC is forced.
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1 to 256
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CSF
FS
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Floating sign format. An optional leading sign may be specified
immediately to the left of the digits. If the sign is a -, the
number is treated as negative. For other characters, the number is
treated as positive. Characters to the left of the sign are
ignored.
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1 to 32
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CSL
LS
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Leading separate sign. An EBCDIC + or - precedes numeric field. One
digit per byte. CMP=CLC is forced.
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2 to 256
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CST
TS
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Trailing separate sign. An EBCDIC + or - follows numeric field. One
digit per byte. CMP=CLC is forced.
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2 to 256
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FD
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Decimal floating point. Signed. An SNaN or QNaN value is invalid and
will cause a WER497A error.
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4, 8, or 16
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FI
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Fixed point. Signed. (Equivalent to Signed Binary.)
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1 to 256
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FL
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Floating point. Normalized. Signed.
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2 to 256
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PD
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Packed decimal. Signed.
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1 to 256
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PD0
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Packed decimal. 2-8-byte packed decimal data with the first digit and
trailing sign ignored. The remaining bytes are treated as packed
decimal digits. Typically PD0 is used with century window processing
and Y2P format; Y2P processes the year, while PD0 processes month
and day.
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2-8
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SFF
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Signed free format. Decimal digits (0-9) are extracted from right to
left to form a number value. A character of – or ) found within the
field will cause the value to be treated as a negative number. All
other non-decimal digit values in the field are ignored.
|
1 to 44
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UFF
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Unsigned free format. Decimal digits (0-9) are extracted from right
to left to form a number value. All non-decimal digit values in the
field are ignored.
|
1 to 44
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| UTF8 |
Unicode data format. Field contains Unicode UTF-n format characters.
where n can be 8. |
1 to 450 |
| UTF16 |
Unicode data format. Field contains Unicode UTF-n format characters.
where n can be 16. |
1 to 450 |
| UTF32 |
Unicode data format. Field contains Unicode UTF-n format characters.
where n can be 32. |
1 to 450 |
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Y2B
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Binary. 2-digit, 1-byte binary year data treated as a 4-digit year by
CENTWIN (century window) processing.
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1
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Y2C
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Character. 2-digit character year data treated as a 4-digit year by
CENTWIN (century window) processing. Processing is identical to Y2Z
fields.
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2
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Y2D
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Packed decimal. 2-digit, 1-byte packed decimal year data treated as a
4-digit year by CENTWIN (century window) processing.
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1
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Y2P
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Packed decimal. 2-digit, 2-byte packed decimal year data. Of the four
packed digits contained in the 2 bytes, the first digit and trailing
sign are ignored; the two inner digits are treated as a 4-digit year
by CENTWIN processing.
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2
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Y2S
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Character or zoned decimal. 2-digit, 2-byte valid numeric data
treated as a 4-digit year by CENTWIN (century window) processing, as
for Y2C and Y2Z. However, certain data are not treated as year data.
Data with binary zeros (X'00') or a blank (X'40') in the first byte
will be collated before valid numeric year data for ascending order
(after year data for descending order). Data with all binary ones
(X'FF') in the first byte will be collated after valid numeric year
data for ascending order (before year data for descending order).
Zones are ignored, as for Y2C and Y2Z, except for data where the
first byte begins with X'00', X'40' or X'FF'.
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2
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Y2T
Y2U
Y2V
Y2W
Y2X
Y2Y
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Full-date, character, binary, or packed decimal formats. Full-date
data formats can be used to sort or merge a variety of date fields.
They can process dates ending or starting with year digits (x...xyy
or yyx...x). They can also process non-date data commonly used with
dates. For details, see the table Full-Date Formats.
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2-6
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Y2Z
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Zoned decimal. 2-digit, 2-byte zoned decimal year data treated as a
4-digit year by CENTWIN (century window) processing. The zones are
ignored. Processing is identical to Y2C fields.
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2
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ZD
CTO
OT
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Zoned decimal. Trailing overpunch in the first 4 bits of the
rightmost byte gives the sign. Hexadecimal F,C,E, or A indicates a
positive number. Hexadecimal D or B indicates a negative number.
One digit per byte. CTO forces CMP=CLC.
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1 to 256
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Note:
* 4084 for variable-length records.
† 2043 for
variable-length records.
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