Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hello,

In the program, I've a field declared in working storage variable as:
and in procedure division I have:
With this, I got an error which states:
Why is this error coming, please help.

You can't MOVE LOW-VALUES TO a-binary-field. If you change it to MOVE ZERO it will compile and your field will get zero in it.

Reason is, LOW-VALUES is a COBOL Figurative Constant relating to the collating sequence used in your program. What relevance would collating-sequence have to a binary field?

Define binary, packed-decimal, plane zoned-decimal (PIC 9(n)), alpha-numeric (PIC X(n), alphabetic (PIC A(n)), numeric-edited and alphanumeric-edited fields. Try to MOVE LOW-VALUES to each of them, and see which work, and which don't, and try to understand why. It will be the same with HIGH-VALUES. What about SPACE? What about ZERO? Try them.

What has the declaration of WS-FEE to do with the rest of the topic as it is never mentioned after being shown?

Thanks William.

nicc, I've aksed Anuj to change that some time back...I'm not sure why he has not chnged it. I had the sme problem with two vriables and mixed the error messge and the declaration while posting here.

Bhaskar Virgo wrote:nicc, I've aksed Anuj to change that some time back...I'm not sure why he has not chnged it. I had the sme problem with two vriables and mixed the error messge and the declaration while posting here.

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