You can use DBCS data items, DBCS literals, and mixed literals as arguments to some intrinsic functions.
Intrinsic functions may also return a DBCS data item if one of the arguments of the intrinsic function is a DBCS data item or a DBCS literal.
For more information on the intrinsic functions that support DBCS items see the chapter on Intrinsic Functions in the WebSphere Development Studio: ILE COBOL Reference.
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