HOST-NUMMOVE

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.

Syntax:
>>--.---.--.----.--HOST-NUMMOVE------><
    +-/-+  +-NO-+
Parameters:

None

Properties:
Default: NOHOST-NUMMOVE
Phase: Syntax check
$SET: Any
Comments:

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.

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