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[yadav2005]

I have a variable called IOAREA declared as DCL IOAREA CHAR(85) UNALIGNED INIT(' ');


1.I want to know what is the difference between UNALIGNED & ALIGNED
2.I want to move some values into specific positions of IOAREA like

i want to a move a variabe of 2 bytes which should start from 8 th bye & end in 9 th byte in the IOAREA.

[bauer]

Hi yadav2005,

2.i: other solution:

DCL X 1 BASED ADDR(IOAREA) UNAL,
2 FILLER1 CHAR(7) ,
2 FIELD CHAR(2),
2 FILLER3 ......

X.FILED = "AA"

Make sure that X and IOAREA have same alignment.

regards,
bauer