The TR command would leave all the non-numeric characters in the data, translated as you specified, so you'd have to have a technique to pass through the result to remove them. A TRT instruction would help you find the non-numeric characters, but in this case it would be considerably slower in execution than the character by character loop approaches suggested.
If the original manually-entered data is not edited as it's entered, there could be many other characters besides "$",",","." and EBCDIC numeric characters in it. That's something TRT could check for. Gary Weinhold Senior Application Architect DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization Phone: +1.613.523.5500 x216<tel:+1.613.523.5500%20x216> Email: weinh...@dkl.com<mailto:weinh...@dkl.com> [http://www.dkl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dkl_logo.png]<http://www.dkl.com/> Visit us online at www.DKL.com<http://www.dkl.com/> [http://www.dkl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/banner.png]<http://www.dkl.com/mailsig> E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. __________ On 2016-10-17 15:11, robi...@dodo.com.au<mailto:robi...@dodo.com.au> wrote: Won't a TR followed by a PACK do this? ----- Original Message ----- From: "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:04:52 -0400 Subject:Re: converting character to packed since it was my original question and thanks for all of the suggestions, the data input was manual into a 20 byte character field including $ signs, commas, and periods (ex. $13,532,908.01) and I am trying to convert to pack decimal for additional reporting on a zOS MVS machine Email sent using Dodo Webmail
