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REP Control Statement

The REP control statement indicates the new value of an updated field. An asterisk (*) in position 1 indicates a comment and the statement is ignored. The Volume record(s) is not updated unless all VER and REP control statements are correct. The format for the REP control statement is:

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REP keyword=value[,...,keyword=value]

Control Statement Definition

REP

Is the control statement identifier. It must start in position 1 and be followed by a space.

keyword

Is any keyword recognized by CA 1.

value

Is the new value to be placed in the field specified by the keyword. The reserved word $REMOVE$, if used with the PASSWRD keyword, will remove the password of a CA 1 password protected tape. The value field may contain only the characters A-Z, 0-9, $, # or @. If the value field must contain any special characters or embedded blanks, the field must be enclosed in delimiters. Any special characters may be used as the delimiters (for example, 'C01 AC$TMS$Z' or *C01 AC$TMS$Z*). The keyword HEXZEROS can be used to replace a field with binary zeros. For date fields, binary zeros can be loaded using a keyword of ZEROS and the highest allowed value is 2155/366.

Specify Julian dates in Julian format (yyddd or yyyy/ddd) or in your specified DATEFMT format. You must specify the CA 1 EXPDT keyword in one of the keyword formats defined in Specify CA 1 Keywords.

Note: The yyddd format is not valid for the year 2000 and beyond.

Keyword dates are:

Note: To remove the password for a tape volume, you must also specify PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx on the VOL control statement where xxxxxxxx is the CA 1 system password.