The picture string supplied in a call to one of the date/time services was invalid. Only one era character string can be specified. The picture string contained an invalid DBCS string or contains more than one era descriptor.
The output value is set to 0.
Verify that the picture string contains valid data. Only one era character string can be specified. If the picture string contains the X'0E' (shift-out) character, this indicates the presence of DBCS data. Therefore, (1) the DBCS data must be terminated by a X'0F' (shift-in) character, (2) there must be an even number of characters between the shift-out and shift-in, and (3) these characters must all be valid DBCS characters.
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