Intrinsic Functions

You can use DBCS data items, DBCS literals, and mixed literals as arguments to some intrinsic functions.

Intrinsic functions may also return a DBCS data item if one of the arguments of the intrinsic function is a DBCS data item or a DBCS literal.

For more information on the intrinsic functions that support DBCS items see the chapter on Intrinsic Functions in the ILE COBOL for AS/400 Reference.