Processing Element Actions › The Validate Statement

The Validate Statement

The Validate statement checks to make sure that elements were generated correctly, no synchronization errors are detected, and that all the components exist and are valid. By specifying the Element Master, Component Validation, and Synchronization options in the SCL statement, you can choose to perform all or some of these Validate checks. The Validate action can be performed at any time, enabling developers to ensure the integrity of elements before including them in a package. The advantage of this feature is that you do not have to create a package and attempt to cast it in order to perform these tasks. (Casting a package also performs these actions.) The Validate command can only be specified in batch and can not be part of package SCL statements.

The Validate action supports long name elements. Long name elements are not available for ISPF dialog processing, but the long name location information can be manually coded in the SCL.