Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Programming Guide


Defining symbolic characters

Use the SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause to give symbolic names to any character of the specified alphabet. Use ordinal position to identify the character, where position 1 corresponds to character X'00'.

For example, to give a name to the backspace character (X'16' in the EBCDIC alphabet), code:

SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS BACKSPACE IS 23


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