JUSTIFIED clause

You can specify the JUSTIFIED clause only at the elementary level. JUST is an abbreviation for JUSTIFIED, and has the same meaning.

You cannot specify the JUSTIFIED clause:

• For data items of category numeric, numeric-edited, alphanumeric-edited, or national-edited
• For edited DBCS items
• For index data items
• For items described as USAGE FUNCTION-POINTER, USAGE POINTER, USAGE PROCEDURE-POINTER, or USAGE OBJECT REFERENCE
• For external floating-point or internal floating-point items
• With level-66 (RENAMES) and level-88 (condition-name) entries

When the JUSTIFIED clause is specified for a receiving item, the data is aligned at the rightmost character position in the receiving item. Also:

• If the sending item is larger than the receiving item, the leftmost character positions are truncated.
• If the sending item is smaller than the receiving item, the unused character positions at the left are filled with spaces. For a DBCS item, each unused position is filled with a DBCS space (X'4040'); for an item described with usage NATIONAL, each unused position is filled with the default UTF-16 space (NX'0020');for an item described with USAGE UTF-8, each unused position is filled with the default UTF-8 space (UX'20'); otherwise, each unused position is filled with an alphanumeric space.

If you omit the JUSTIFIED clause, the rules for standard alignment are followed (see Alignment rules).

The JUSTIFIED clause does not affect initial settings as determined by the VALUE clause.