If the field you are defining is a concatenation of fields from the
associated physical file (specified by the CONCAT keyword), you cannot specify
the data type. The OS/400 program assigns the data type based on the
data types of the fields that are being concatenated. The general rules
are:
- If the concatenation contains one or more hexadecimal (H) fields, the
resulting data type is hexadecimal (H).
- If the concatenation contains one or more character (A) fields, but no
hexadecimal fields, the resulting data type is character (A).
- If the concatenation contains only numeric (S, P, B) fields, the resulting
data type is zoned decimal (S).
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