Remember the following rules when using figurative constants:
Note that the results of MOVEA are different from those of the
MOVE example above.
- After figurative constants are set/reset to their appropriate
length, their normal collating sequence can be altered if an alternate
collating sequence is specified.
- The move operations MOVE and MOVEL produce the same result when
moving the figurative constants *ALL'x..', *ALLG'oK1K2i', and *ALLX'x1..'.
The string is cyclically repeated character by character (starting
on the left) until the length of the associated field is the same
as the length of the string.
- Figurative constants can be used in compare operations as long
as one of the factors is not a figurative constant.
- The figurative constants, *BLANK/*BLANKS, are moved as zeros to
a numeric field in a MOVE operation.