On Mon, September 25, 2017 12:39, Pickering, John wrote:
> define d-account-number char*8 = ascii(account-number,8)
> Or
> define d-account-number char*8 = char(account-number)
>
> Then include the defined item in your portable subfile instead of the
> actual data element.

Thanks, I am doing exactly that for other items where the values are
signed but my question remains: Why is QTP prefacing an unsigned zoned
decimal with a plus sign? I would expect only digits.

The facile answer is: Because they programmed it that way.  But why?
Why does one have to convert ASCII encoded characters to . . . ASCII
encoded characters to get rid of a character that is not in the source
data?

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