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Hi all,

I am a fresher to the mainframe.Kindly i am in need of your help.
I am trying to include DB2 commands in C program.In variable declaration i face a issue.Zos is not accepting open/close square brackets([]).But in Char datatype to define a number of characters i am in need of it.How can i declare the char datatype??

Please show us the code fragment giving the error and the error itself (message number and text). C/370 does use square brackets, so you may not have diagnosed the problem correctly.

EBCDIC uses multiple code pages. In standard EBCDIC, X'BA' and X'BB' are the square brackets. However, the IBM C compilers use X'AD' and X'BD' for the square brackets. Turn hex on in your editor and determine which you have; you'll probably need to change them all to the other set to get your program to compile.