Certain commonly used constants and literals are available as reserved words called figurative constants: ZERO, SPACE, HIGH-VALUE, LOW-VALUE, QUOTE, NULL, and ALL literal. Because they represent fixed values, figurative constants do not require a data definition.
For example:
Move Spaces To Report-Header
related tasks
Using national-character figurative constants
Coding for use of DBCS support
related references
Figurative constants
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