Specifying input parameters

VOLUME VCODE

Specifies a table of character type codes to use with the CRITERIA command, VALUE parameter. This parameter accommodates the different presentations of numbers used in different countries, thereby ensuring accurate comparisons of numeric values.

Syntax VOLUME VCODE = (translation type, keyword)

Options

Table 2-79. VOLUME VCODE parameter options and definitions

Option

Definition

 

 

 

 

translation type

Specifies a standard code translation set. The following options are available:

 

ASCII

 

BCD

 

EBCDIC

 

H2BCD

 

H6BCD

 

IBMCD

 

PEBCDIC

 

Coding any one of the keywords gives a set of character-to-type assignments.

 

 

keyword

Specifies a standard character Type code table. The options for this parameter

 

are shown in the following table.

 

 

 

Keyword options The following “Character Type code options” table defines a character Type code for each of the characters in a character code translation set.

Table 2-80. Character Type code options

Type

Thousands separator

Decimal point

 

 

 

 

 

 

VCODE0

comma

period

 

 

 

VCODE1

period

comma

 

 

 

VCODE2

comma, space, apostrophe

period

 

 

 

VCODE3

period, space, apostrophe

comma

 

 

 

VCODE4

space

period

 

 

 

VCODE5

space

comma

 

 

 

VCODE6

period, space

dollar sign

 

 

 

VCODE7

comma, space, apostrophe

period

 

 

 

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