I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric
field?What should I do to move spaces on that field?help
please.

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / ramesh

first numeric field rediffens alpha numeric field
then you check numeric and move spaces to redifened name
ex:
01 num pic 9(09).
01 num1 rediffens num.
02 num2 pic x(09).

if num is numeric
move spaces to num2
end-if.

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Answer / mahesh

Thing is that spaces can't be moved to numeric fields,
u can move only zeros and other numeric values to numeric
fields, spaces can be moved to alphanumeric and alphabetic
fields only.

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / nitesh sethi

Use option BLANK WHEN ZERO for that field and initialize
that field.
Initalize will move zeroes to that field and declarion of
that field with BLANK WHEN ZERO will not have zeroes in
that field.

Directly moving spaces to a numeric field is not possible
as it will result in SOC7 Abend

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Answer / sundar

Directly move space to numeric fields encount severe error.
But if you move space to another alphanumeric field and
then move to numeric field then this will not get any error.

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / arpan

We need to use Initialize for Numeric and SPACES for Alpha
numeric fields.

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / sundar

Move space to the numeric field not getting any error.
However if that numeric field involves any arithmatic
operation than it will get abend.

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / guest

IF I-field-name IS NUMERIC
MOVE SPACES TO I-field-name
END-IF

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / kanika

intialize will solve the purpose.

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I encountered an error when I move spaces to a numeric field?What should I do to move spaces on th..

Answer / guest

IF I-field-name EQUAL ZEROES
MOVE SPACES TO O-field-name
END-IF

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