IBM Mainframe Forum

I did this

select jasdk
asdfasd
asdfasdf
* asdfasdf
* number_thing
into jhaskdjh
kjsdhkfa
kjsdfkj
table-number-thing

Now it worked but why ? what do i do to make those columns go properly ?

it worked because You obeyed the rule that an host variable should not have the same name as a column

Mostly people put a prefix on data-names, to indicate whether it is in WORKING-STORAGE or LINKAGE, for instance. If you had done that originally....