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EBCDIC and DBCS Fields

A nonnumeric value moved between EBCDIC fields or DBCS fields is left justified in the target field. The following considerations apply:

• If the source-field value is shorter than the target field, the remaining positions in the target field are filled with blanks.
• If the source-field value is longer than the target field, the rightmost characters are truncated.

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