In message <000201c24488$d68d7130$c307893e@hppav>, David Rutherford
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>I am having trouble reading PACKED data items with my Cobol program.
>Allow me to give a little background...
>
>Query listing of Data Items being read by the program...
>
>COMM-A       =0005000000{
>COMM-B       =0000000000{
>COMM-C       =00000000000
>Please post any replies to the list, rather than just to me. Thankyou in
>advance for your help.

Can you please give the results of FO ITEM on these three fields?

That will help the diagnosis.
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