# Examine Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\ **Created:** [November 6, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/examine-question/61679 "2006-11-06T21:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/examine-question/61679/1 "2006-11-06T21:44:31Z")
Hi there, is there a Option to Examine to ignore NAT1308 Errors? I want to do the following: [code] DEFINE DATA LOCAL 01 #A (A12) END-DEFINE #A := 'F ---
**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/examine-question/61679/2 "2006-11-06T22:20:55Z")
The Natural-Help for NAT1308 says: > [@](#): > > A truncation of a value is not allowed in an EXAMINE statement. So I think you have to use the “not-so-smart-solution”. But you’re right. I would prefer a truncation option for the EXAMINE … REPLACE statement, too. ---
**Author:** ![Nax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f07891/32.png) [@Nax](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Nax)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/examine-question/61679/3 "2006-11-06T23:36:25Z")
What about that: [code] DEFINE DATA LOCAL 01 #A (A) DYNAMIC END-DEFINE #A := 'F ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/examine-question/61679/4 "2006-11-07T15:47:16Z")
Dynamic Variables are not enabled here. Our Sysadmin has still the V31COMP on. (I know that i could change this, but not when i commit the Sources to the Productionsystem) :-/ Greetings Sascha ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/examine-question/61679/5 "2021-04-02T14:40:56Z")