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Standard Banners in Source

The standard banner MUST be used in all source types. The purpose of the banner is to indicate the author and original development date of the source, and the system to which it belongs. The banner, which should be entered as comment lines flagged as Header (*H) source directives, can be automatically extracted by the CA 2E Toolkit Document Program (YDOCPGM) command to form part of the system documentation.

Standard banner for fixed format types (RPG III, DDS, COBOL):

Standard banner for free format types (CLP, CMD, PL/1):

Standard banner for tag types (UIM):