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

ORDINALNAME

ORDINALNAME returns a nonvarying character string that is the member of the set associated with the ordinal x.

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Reference. It must have ordinal type.

ORDINALs cannot be used in computational expressions and cannot be converted to character, but ORDINALNAME provides a way to obtain a displayable value for an ORDINAL and can be very useful in debugging.


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