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Hello !

I will update a substring in a data field with a COMP value:


I want to update 7001C (= 70001) to 21120C :


I will update the field with overlay, but I have no idea how to convert '21120' to the packed value.

Any suggestions?

Greets
Axel

In your example the value ‘21120’ is presented exactly in IBM packed decimal format. I’m 100% sure of this.

What do you need to convert, from where, and to where?