Data Type (position 35)

In this field specify the data type/keyboard shift attribute for physical files.

The following table contains the characters which are valid in this field:

Entry
Description
P
Packed decimal
A
Character
B
Binary
S
Zoned decimal
F
Floating point
H
Hexadecimal
L
Date
T
Time
Z
Timestamp
J
Only DBCS data.
E
Either DBCS or alphanumeric data.
O
Both DBCS and alphanumeric data.
G
Only DBCS data with no shift-control characters.