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National or national-edited

Start of changeA national data item may receive data from an alphabetic, alphanumeric, DBCS, or national data item, and also from a nonnumeric, DBCS, or national literal, or the figurative constant SPACE/SPACES.End of change

Data moved to such an item is aligned at the leftmost character position and, where necessary, truncated or padded to the right with the padding character specified in the Padding Character command option or NTLPADCHAR option of the PROCESS statement. For information about the PROCESS statement, see IBM® Rational® Development Studio for i: ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide.

If the data that is being transferred is not national data, it will be converted from its representation in the sending field according to the data translation rule before it is placed in the receiving field.

The CCSID specified on the National CCSID compiler option or the NTLCCSID PROCESS option is used to define the national data CCSID.

The following rules determine the CCSID associated with other data items:

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