Assigned Field Type Codes

Supported IBM-assigned field type codes

Some of our macros support polymorphism of function overloading. The most important examples are the CPY macro and the macros that take a condition such as IF, DO (WHILE/UNTIL) and CASE.

Not all macros support all defined field type codes. Check the descriptions of the pertinent macros for details.

The following IBM-defined field type codes are currently supported:

$ - WXTRN symbol
@ - Graphics field
A - A-type address field
B - Binary field
C - Character field
D - Long floating point field
E - Short floating point field
F - Fullword fixed-point field
G - Fixed-point field, explicit length
H - Halfword fixed-point field
I - Machine instruction
J - Control section name
K - Floating point field, explicit length
L - Extended floating point field
M - Macro instruction
N - Self-defining term
O - Omitted operand
P - Packed decimal field
Q - Q-type address field
R - Address field of type A, S, Q, V, Y, with explicit length
S - S-type address field
T - EXTRN symbol
U - Undefined
V - V-type address field
W - CCW or CCWn instruction
X - Hexadecimal field
Y - Y-type address field
Z - Zoned decimal field

In addition the following types have been defined by Bixoft:

a - Access register
b - Bit field
c - Control register
f - Floating point register
g - General purpose register (32-bit)
j - Embedded control block (DCL-declared)
l - Long General Purpose Register (64-bit)
p - Pointer register
v - EQU-defined value assigned to a code field
0 - Literal decimal number of unspecified type and length

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