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

Data elements

Data items
Variables
Constants
Using quotation marks
Punctuating constants
Data types and attributes
Data attributes
Computational data types and attributes
Coded arithmetic data and attributes
String data and attributes

This chapter introduces the kinds of data you can use in PL/I programs and the attributes you use to describe them. The discussion covers:

For information on how to declare data, refer to Data declarations.


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