thanks Chuck, I will give that a try!!!
I have character data in a field (ex. $13,501,298.01) and I need to remove the
special characters and convert field from char to packed? Can someone give a
suggestion on the best and simplest way to do it, thanks?
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.
I have a field PL7 that contains a number (dollar amount) and I have to output
that amount into a CL15 output field. The customer would like for the
remaining characters other than the digits for the amount to be zeros, i.e.,
0012391. I am trying to code a EDMK pattern with no
