Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

DATAFIELD

DATAFIELD is in context in a NAME condition ON-unit (or any of its dynamic descendants). It returns a character string whose value is the contents of the field that raised the condition. It is also in context in an ON-unit (or any of its dynamic descendants) for an ERROR or FINISH condition raised as part of the implicit action for the NAME condition.

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If the string that raised the condition contains DBCS identifiers, GRAPHIC data, or mixed character data, DATAFIELD returns a mixed character string.

If DATAFIELD is used out of context, a null string is returned.


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