Specifies whether data being stored into a USAGE COMP, USAGE BINARY or USAGE
COMP-4 item is to be truncated to the size given by the item's PICTURE clause
or to the maximum size the item can hold.
Syntax:
>>-.---.-.-------TRUNC--"method"-.---------><
+-/-+ +.----.-TRUNC-----------+
+-NO-+
Parameters:
| method |
One of:
| TRUNC |
Truncate in decimal to the number of digits given by the PICTURE clause,
on all stores into COMP, BINARY and COMP-4 items. |
| NOTRUNC |
Truncate in binary to the capacity of the allocated storage, on all nonarithmetic
stores into COMP, BINARY and COMP-4 items. |
| TRUNC"ANSI" |
Truncate in decimal to the number of digits given by the PICTURE clause,
on nonarithmetic stores into COMP, BINARY and COMP-4 items. On arithmetic
statements that cause the size error condition and that have no ON SIZE ERROR
phrase, the result is undefined. | |
Properties:
| Default: |
TRUNC"ANSI" (Dialect  ) |
| Phase: |
Syntax check |
| $SET: |
Initial |
Dependencies:
Set to TRUNC"ANSI" immediately by NORM.
Set to NOTRUNC immediately by RM or RM"ANSI".
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