NUMERIC Directive

EFD Directives : NUMERIC Directive

NUMERIC Directive

The NUMERIC directive causes the subsequent field to be treated as a numeric if it is declared as alphanumeric.

$EFD NUMERIC

or

*(( EFD NUMERIC ))

or

*>(( EFD NUMERIC ))

Example

The field customer-code will be stored as numeric data type in the table.

$EFD NUMERIC

03 CUSTOMER-CODE PIC X(7).

$EFD NUMERIC

*(( EFD NUMERIC ))

*>(( EFD NUMERIC ))

$EFD NUMERIC 03 CUSTOMER-CODE PIC X(7).

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