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114 Programming: Pipes
JOBNAME (conversion order)
Specifies that the input contains a 2-byte binary ASID value. The
corresponding job name is returned. If an error occurs, one of the four error
tokens (>,*,?, or !) in Table 8 on page 109 might be returned.
LEFT (conversion order)
Specifies that the input data is to be truncated or padded to the length
specified by number. Characters are counted from the beginning, or left, of the
input. If padding is required, the character specified on the most recent PAD
global order is used.
ODDBYTES (conversion order)
Specifies that the input text be alternately kept and discarded. The format of
ODDBYTES is ODDBYTES keep.discard.
keep is an unsigned, positive number specifying the number of characters to
keep.
discard is an unsigned, positive number specifying the number of characters to
discard.
For example, if the input is 13:15:45 and ODDBYTES 2.1 is specified, 131545 is
returned. That is, two characters were kept and one was discarded. Then,
another two characters were kept, and one was discarded. And so on.
OPDT (conversion order)
Specifies that input text is to be treated as a store clock (STCK) value. OPDT
converts the input into a 17-character string representing the date and time in
readable form. The converted form is the one specified by DEFAULTS or
OVERRIDE date and time formats for the system and operator where the
conversion is done.
For example, X'ACE5652DC5690201' is converted to 96/05/20 18:25:19.
A typical use is to take the input provided by the IFRAUGMT msgattr input
order and convert it to readable form.
Note: The data representing a store clock is 8 characters in length. If the input
data provided OPDT is not 8 characters, results are unpredictable.
P2C (conversion order)
Specifies that the input data is a character string representing a signed or
unsigned floating point number. The input is converted to an internal packed
decimal representation with scale decimal digits precision.
v If scale is 0, the integer portion of the number is converted to packed
decimal. For example, C2P 0 converts the input 123.456 to X'123C' which is
the packed decimal number representing 123.
v If scale is positive, the resulting number has scale number digits included in
the packed decimal. For example, C2P 2 converts the input 123.456 to
X'12345C' which is the packed decimal representing 12345.
v If scale is negative, the resulting number has scale number of digits removed
from the integer portion of the packed decimal. The decimal portion is
ignored. For example, C2P -1 converts the input 123.456 to X'012C' which is
the packed decimal number representing 12.
C2P is the inverse of P2C.
PREFIX (conversion order)
Adds a constant to the beginning of a string.