INZ{(initial value)}

The INZ keyword initializes the standalone field, data structure, data-structure subfield, or object to the default value for its data type or, optionally, to the constant specified in parentheses.

• For a program described data structure, no parameter is allowed for the INZ keyword.
• For an externally described data structure, only the *EXTDFT parameter is allowed.
• For a data structure that is defined with the LIKEDS keyword, the value *LIKEDS specifies that subfields are initialized in the same way as the parent data structure. This applies only to initialization specified by the INZ keyword on the parent subfield. It does not apply to initialization specified by the CTDATA or FROMFILE keywords. If the parent data structure has some subfields initialized by CTDATA or FROMFILE, the data structure initialized with INZ(*LIKEDS) will not have the CTDATA or FROMFILE data.
• For an object, only the *NULL parameter is allowed. Every object is initialized to *NULL, whether or not you specify INZ(*NULL).

The initial value specified must be consistent with the type being initialized. The initial value can be a literal, named constant, figurative constant, built-in function, or one of the special values *SYS, *JOB, *EXTDFT, *USER, *LIKEDS, or *NULL. When initializing Date or Time data type fields or named constants with Date or Time values, the format of the literal must be consistent with the default format as derived from the Control specification, regardless of the actual format of the date or time field.

A UCS-2 field may be initialized with a character, UCS-2 or graphic constant. If the constant is not UCS-2, the compiler will implicitly convert it to UCS-2 at compile time.

A numeric field may be initialized with any type of numeric literal. However, a float literal can only be used with a float field. Any numeric field can be initialized with a hexadecimal literal of 16 digits or fewer. In this case, the hexadecimal literal is considered an unsigned numeric value.

Specifying INZ(*EXTDFT) initializes externally described data-structure subfields with the default values from the DFT keyword in the DDS. If no DFT or constant value is specified, the DDS default value for the field type is used. You can override the value specified in the DDS by coding INZ with or without a parameter on the subfield specification.

Specifying INZ(*EXTDFT) on the external data structure definition, initializes all externally described subfields to their DDS default values. If the externally described data structure has additional program described subfields, these are initialized to the RPG default values.

When using INZ(*EXTDFT), take note of the following:

• If the DDS value for a date or time field is not in the RPG internal format, the value will be converted to the internal format in effect for the program.
• External descriptions must be in physical files.
• If *NULL is specified for a null-capable field in the DDS, the compiler will use the DDS default value for that field as the initial value.
• If DFT('') is specified for a varying length field, the field will be initialized with a string of length 0.
• INZ(*EXTDFT) is not allowed if the CVTOPT option is in effect.

Specifying INZ(*USER) intializes any character field or subfield to the name of the current user profile. Character fields must be at least 10 characters long. If the field is longer than 10 characters, the user name is left-justified in the field with blanks in the remainder.

Date fields can be initialized to *SYS or *JOB. Time and Timestamp fields can be initialized to *SYS.

Please see Initialization of Nested Data Structures for a complete description of the use of the INZ keyword in the inititlization of nested data structures.

A data structure, data-structure subfield, or standalone field defined with the INZ keyword cannot be specified as a parameter on an *ENTRY PLIST.

This keyword is not valid in combination with BASED or IMPORT.