Ensures that run-time error 163 (illegal characters in numeric fields) does not occur when certain MOVE statements are executed on numeric display data items or numeric operands.
>>--.---.--.----.--HOST-NUMMOVE------>< +-/-+ +-NO-+
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Default: | NOHOST-NUMMOVE |
Phase: | Syntax check |
$SET: | Any |
This directive is provided to improve compatibility with IBM mainframe compilers, resulting in a run-time error 163 ("Illegal character in numeric field") in cases where a S0C7 would have occurred on the mainframe.
Setting HOST-NUMMOVE improves compatibility with IBM mainframe compilers for a subset of MOVE statements involving numeric/alphanumeric data types and numeric/numeric data types.
It is not possible to guarantee 100% compatibility with the IBM mainframe behavior, but setting HOST-NUMMOVE does provide emulation for the most common cases.