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I didn't forget, but maybe you misunderstood my question?

The original post and this one can be simply illustrated with the following Rexx script.

str_b = 'F1F2F3'
say str_b' 'x2c(st ...

This seems strange to me and I must be missing something that's ridiculously simple, but for the life of me, I can't find it.

select hex(24) from sysibm.sysdummy1 ;

shows the hex valu ...

A colleague asked me (I who haven't lived in England in decades and has worked all my life in Sweden) what the English expression might be for the concept of masking and copying data from production t ...

Thank you for your suggestions. I'll almost certainly revisit the CASE example for the situation where the database can contain negative values (very unusual), but for all the "ordinary" pos ...

I'm selecting data from a DB2 table that contains 2 binary fields. These fields (in reality) contain the equivalent of a DL/1 segment, so they can easily contain a mixture of character and COMP-3 fiel ...

The actual content of the binary fields is only used as a sort of placeholder.

The actual s/w package is intended to mask things like SSN values so they can't be tied to a "real" person.W ...

I'll answer my own question in case anyone else has the same problem (a colleague helped me).
The following can insert a row into a table
insert into TDRT3C0
values( 0 -- LOG_NR_ORDER
,0 ...

We have a DB2 table defined with a column defined as Binary (yes, completely new for me as well).

When the copybook is generated the resulting DB2 definition is
,DL1_SEGMENT BI ...

So, reading 4 rows instead of 1, or did I misunderstand you?

To say it sounds inefficient must be an understatement.

How many times per day will it be read?

I think you missed the bit where I wrote
as long as you don't try to actually use it

Not sure if want to compile the code using the NOCOMPILE option you mentioned.
I'm quite happy to see duplicat ...

The idea (?) behind compiled Rexx is to be able to distribute your code as object code only while "protecting" your source code from prying eyes.
One of the problems you're going to run int ...

Thought I'd update this thread a bit more.
One of the "quirks" of the Rexx compiler (CREXX) is the fact that it is less "forgiving" than the interpretative variation (IREXX) (whic ...

After reading the documentation, it was actually easier than I thought.
The stripped down PROC I created was the same as that defined at

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=by-rexxc-fan ...

I was going to append a long description of how my attempts went compiling Rexx scripts, but the preview button is still failing.

Thank you.
Lot to read and, I imagine, many pitfalls along the way Smile

Still, simply a matter of reading up, experimenting and taking notes of what to do to get it all working.