PAD control statement

Specifies the padding character to fill out the segments to adjust to the length defined in the DBD definition.

The segments are padded in the following cases:
  • When a segment edit/compression exit is not used and the length of fixed-length segments is increased because the DBD definition changed.
  • When a segment edit/compression exit is used and the length of fixed-length segments is shorter than the maximum number of bytes defined by the COMPRTN parameter in the DBD definition.
  • When the length of variable-length segments is shorter than the minimum segment length defined in the DBD definition.

This control statement is optional. If you do not specify this control statement, PAD=X'00' is used.

Read syntax diagram
>>-PAD=X'nn'---------------------------------------------------><
nn
Specify a two digit hexadecimal code as the padding character. For example, PAD=X'FF'.
Tip: The default value of the PAD control statement can be changed. For details, see Setting installation default options.