General Purpose PDFs

General purpose PDFs are used as index work variables or work fields in ILF statements. The general purpose PDFs are:

A, B, C...Z

Temporarily stores floating point number.

AI, BI, CI...ZI

Temporarily stores inter numbers

BETWEEN

Temporarily stores the results of date math instructions.

TEMP n

Temp fields variy from 1 to 32k in size (x). Temp fields temporarily store alpha numeric characters. Left/Right/Center justification with and without zero fill variations can be specified on all --- TEMP fields. The suffix designates the type of justification:

L - Left Justified
R- Right Justified
L0 - Left Justified, zero fill
R0 - Right Justified, zero fill
C - Centered.

For example:

--- TEMP 128 - no justification, no fill (same as always)
--- TEMP 128L - left justification, no fill
--- TEMP 128L0 - left justification, zero fill
--- TEMP 128R - right justification, no fill
--- TEMP 128R0 - right justification, zero fill
--- TEMP 128C - centre justification, no fill

Valid TEMP x sizes are; 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,16,20,22,24,30,32,40,50,60,64,79,80,128,32,256,512,1k,2k,8k, and 32k