IBM Mainframe Forum

Hi All,

Could someone please help me out on conversion of Zero compressed value of the format Z(6)9.999 to character conversion.

thanks
Rajnivas

Hello and welcome to the forum,

Someone may be able to help if you tell us what "Zero compressed value" means to you. . .

Where is this value? How is it defined? What value(s?) does it contain?

This does not indicate any kind of "compression" - Z(6)9.999

Hi

I want convert the below declared variable to character

02 XXXXX PIC Z(6)9.999

XXXXX is a value displayed on CICS screen. When i initialize the value it displays as 0.000 but the display should be blank when it is initialized that is it should be SPACES.

thanks
rajnivas

Hello,

The mask you have specified forces the n.nnn result. . .

I'm not connected to a mainframe just now so i've not tested this. Suggest you try:

Thanks alot... The suggestion you provided is working.

Good to hear it is working - thank you for letting us know

d