Why 0 is being appended at the end for the values taken from cics

Question

I have a numeric field in a cics map and is of length 3. When i enter 10 in the field and try to insert to a database by storing into a working storage variable in cobol program, It is being inserted as 100. Why is this happening so? Is there any way to insert it in the beginning

Answer 1

Because the default for a BMP field is left justification with blank padding.

You need to add JUSTIFY=(RIGHT,ZERO) to your DFHMDF field definition.

Here's the CICS Application Programming Reference.