HEX Values 

You can specify the external data type with a HEX value. This enables you to load or unload all data types in hexadecimal form. Every byte of data in the result is then represented by two hexadecimal numbers. Each value in the data file then occupies twice the amount of space as in the same format without the HEX specification.

FASTLOAD TABLE customer
  cno       01-03 CHAR HEX
  surname   04-12 CHAR HEX
  zip       13-17 INTEGER HEX
  place     18-29 CHAR HEX
INFILE 'customer.data' FORMATTED

DATALOAD TABLE article IF POS 40-47 INTEGER HEX > '0'
  foa       01-08
  des       09-39 NULL IF POS 09-11 = ' '
  stock     40-47 INTEGER HEX
  min_ord   47-48 INTEGER
  price     48-55 DECIMAL (2)
  weight     56-59 REAL
INFILE 'article.data' FORMATTED