Corrective action for the INITIALIZE statement

To initialize any of these reclassified data items in the same manner as they had been previously, change the original statement for the first example mentioned previously to the following statement:

INITIALIZE ALPHA REPLACING
           ALPHANUMERIC-EDITED DATA BY ALL "3".

In the second example, which shows a group of possibly mixed types, INITIALIZE should be supplemented with an additional phrase. For example:

INITIALIZE GROUP1 REPLACING
                  ALPHABETIC DATA BY ALL "5"
                  ALPHANUMERIC-EDITED DATA BY ALL "5".

Important: Adding this extra phrase could cause conflicts if you already specified this phrase but used different replacing data or if you had other alphanumeric-edited items within the group that you did not want initialized.