Hi, David

from rusty old memory 
IIRC, Illegal ASCII digit (711?) is the Program move character X  to numeric 
field 9 and value is not numeric, and numeric field can not accept Alpha data
and display error message...
Just add IS NUMERIC(?) will avoid this problem, or inspect data ..

alphanumeric-field IS NUMERIC
    move alphanumeric-field to numeric-field. 
alphanumeric-field IS NOT NUMERIC
    display alphanumeric-field.

Cheers
Peter C.
 
>>> "Rutherford, David" <[log in to unmask]> 10/08 6:08 AM >>>
All,

I'm trying to trace a problem I'm having with Illegal ASCII digits running a
CM Cobol program.  It's a huge program with lots of called Cobol Subroutines
held in a SL.

I have some very old crib sheets on tracing Illegal ASCII problems but, when
I follow them, I can't find any data relevant to the problem or I'm pointed
to a subroutine or area that is not correct.

Is my old documentation still "current" in an MPE Ix environment or is there
anything/anybody out there able to shed more light??


Many thanks in advance,


Dave Baxter



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