$, @, #, and all other variant characters should not
be used in identifiers because the code points used to represent them vary
depending on the CCSID of the string in which they are contained. If they
are used, unpredictable results may occur. For more information about variant
characters, see the
DB2 and SQL sort sequence topic
in the iSeries Information Center.
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