IBM Extension
National Items
- The PICTURE character-string can contain the symbol(s) N.
- The contents of the item must be UCS-2 characters and must
not be characters requiring multiple encoding units.
- Each N represents a single UCS-2 character.
- When PICTURE clause symbol N is used, USAGE NATIONAL must be implicitly
or explicitly specified.
Associated VALUE clauses must specify an alphanumeric literal,
a non-numeric literal, a national literal, or one
of the following figurative constants:
- SPACE/SPACES
- ZERO/ZEROS/ZEROES
- ALL alphanumeric-literal
- ALL national-literal

End of IBM Extension