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Data Specification

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

Duplication factor

Specifies the number of times the following data is to be repeated. Specify a value between 1 and 32,760 that is less than the record's length. This value precedes the from-data, to-data, and data portion of the data specification.

Data, from-data, and to-data

C'c…'

Character—matches specified case

N'n…'

Numeric

N'+n…' and N'-n...'

Signed numeric

P'n…'

Positive packed decimal

P'+n…' and 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.
• 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.