Data Specification

The data specification rules for the parameters from-data, to-data, and data are described in this section.

Duplication factor

The number of times the following data is to be repeated (value 1-32760). This must be less than the record's length. This value precedes the from-data, to-data, and data portion of the data specification.

Data

C'c…' Character – matches specified case
N'n…' Numeric
N'+n…',N'-n… ' Signed numeric
P'n…' Positive packed decimal
P'+n…',P'-n…' Signed packed decimal
T'c…' Text – matches both lower and uppercase alphabetic
characters. Alphanumeric data is permitted
X'hh' Hexadecimal

Character data within quotes is always treated as text. For example, strings containing commas must be placed in quotes, (C"x,y,z" means the character string 'x,y,z', where as C'x,y,z', means 'x' or 'y' or 'z').
When the text contains an apostrophe, the text needs to be enclosed in quotes.
When the text contains a quote, the text needs to be enclosed in apostrophes.

From-data and To-data

C'c…' Character – matches specified case
N'n…' Numeric
N'+n…',N'-n…' Signed numeric
P'n…' Positive packed decimal
P'+n…',P'-n…' Signed packed decimal
T'c…' Text – matches both lower and uppercase alphabetic
characters. Alphanumeric data is permitted.
X'hh' Hexadecimal

Character data within apostrophes and quotes are always treated as text.
When the text contains an apostrophe, the text needs to be enclosed in quotes.
When the text contains a quote, the text needs to be enclosed in apostrophes.