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Padding and truncation z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide SC23-6878-00 |
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In a field-to-field comparison, the shorter compare field is padded appropriately. In a field-to-constant comparison, the constant is padded or truncated to the length of the compare field. Character and hexadecimal strings are truncated and padded on the right. The padding characters are:
Decimal constants are padded and truncated on the left. Padding is done with zeros in the proper format. |
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