Well, you can specify any characters you want via any version of HP Cobol,
but afaik you only get you guessed it octal.  I've never tried specifiying a
character greater that octal 177 aka DEL aka "char(127)"(decimal).  Someone
else may come up with hex, but this works fine:
01  record-description.
        05  rl-hex-zero-C       pic xx value %060 %103.
      05  rl-therest...
Other ways to cheat:
01  record-description.
        05  r1-hex-zero-C pic s9(4) comp value 67.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Palmer, Elmo L [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:34 AM
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> Subject: hexidecimal in cobol
>
>
> I need to generate as the first two characters of a record
> the hexidecimal characters "0C".  Does anyone know how to do
> this in COBOL 85.  I see there is some new features that will
> allow me to do that in COBOL 2000 but I don't have that.
>
> I would appreciate any help you can provide.  Thanks
> LaMont Palmer
>