Re: Question on Cobol Move statement - mixed move x to zzz9.

On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:32:56 -0400, Michael Schey
<mscheynjSPAMBLOCK@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:29:58 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
>wrote:
> 
>
>Yup.  I'm not stupid and work on many platforms.  Shit, I used to
>teach Cobol (a long time ago) and understand how moves work.  The
>sending field is moving the data left to right, one byte at a time.  I
>just can't explain why the result is coming out the way it is.
>Michael

Depending on the platform and possible low-order zone, the blanks are
treated as zeros.  I could see this causing a data exception (S0C7) on
an IBM z series unless the PACK was followed by an OR IMMEDIATE on the
sign position because the packed value of the field would be
x'030004'.  Other platforms would have their own peculiarities.
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