z/OS V1R6.0 DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs

DELETE -(ENTRY1 -ENTRY2 -ENTR+Y3) -NONVSAMA blank record, or a record ending with a complete comment, must end with acontinuation mark when it appears in the middle of a command, and when itprecedes or follows the THEN and ELSE clauses of an IF command.IF LASTCC = 0 -THEN -REPRO .../*COMMENT WITH NO CONTINUATION MARK AFTER*/ELSE -PRINT ...Because no continuation mark (hyphen) follows the comments, a null command isassumed. The ELSE keyword will not match the THEN keyword.Records ending with partial comments must always end with a continuation mark.Only blank characters can appear between a continuation mark and the end of therecord.Exception: The DO-END sequence does not require continuation characters. If youuse continuation characters, they can be read as a null command orcause unpredictable results.The terminatorThe terminator ends the command, and can be either a semicolon or the absence ofa continuation mark.If you use the semicolon as the terminator, do not close it in quotation marks orembed it in a comment. Everything to the right of the semicolon is ignored.For example, if you code:PARM TEST (TRACE); PARM -GRAPHICS (CHAIN(TN))/*COMMENT*/ -PRINT ...REPRO ...the characters following the semicolon terminator are ignored. Because acontinuation mark (hyphen) appears at the end of the second record, the PRINTcommand is also ignored. The first PARM command and the REPRO command arethe only recognized commands.About this documentxxi