IBM Extension
IBM Extension
National Literals
National literals can be specified in the following places:
- In the VALUE clause of national data description entries
- As the sending item in the procedure division. For more information, see MOVE Statement.
- As an operand in the relation condition
- As an argument to the intrinsic functions than support national data.
ILE COBOL
provides two national literal formats:
- Basic national literals
- National hexadecimal literals

The figurative constant SPACE/SPACES, ALL SPACE/SPACES can be a national literal. SPACE is single byte UCS-2 space (NX"0020").
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