Reporting Facility Rules for Coding › Hexadecimal Literals

Hexadecimal Literals

When you need to initialize a field or variable to a hexadecimal value, you can code a hexadecimal literal in the following format:

►►─ X'digits' ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────►◄

'digits'

Are a combination of valid hexadecimal digits (0—9, A—F) representing the value of a single byte. You must provide an even number of hexadecimal digits.

Since a hexadecimal literal must be contained on one source line in a Reporting Facility program, the maximum number of bytes to be represented in a single literal is 34.

The following table illustrates uses of hexadecimal literals:

Code hexadecimal literals only on Format 2 DEFINE or MOVE commands.