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There may still be a few situations where the compiler does not allow the literal when CCSID(*EXACT) is specified.
But if there are cases where the literal value is not handled correctly with CCSID(*EXACT), such as in a concatenation, that should be reported to IBM as a defect.
In general, it would not be a good idea to use a hexadecimal literal to represent a value with a particular CCSID. The RPG programmer would have to be very careful to only use the hexadecimal literal in the context of the intended CCSID.
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Hi,
Thank you for your quick response. I wasn't aware of these PTF's and will ask the administrator to load them.
This solves the compiler issue but still the question remains of how to differentiate between constants with different CCSID's like these
One would need to declare these with a hexadecimal value or declare a variable with the const keyword. Is that one of the intended applications for the const keyword in variables?
For information about the implicit CCSID conversions for the string built-in functions, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=data-conversions.
For PTF information, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7246939.
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