z/VSE File Characteristics Program › SET OPTIONS Statement

SET OPTIONS Statement

The SET OPTIONS statement enables you to define the beginning and ending columns for the IDMSFILE control statements that follow. By default, the beginning column is 1 and the ending column is 72. You can code multiple SET OPTIONS statements to set different ranges, as required.

Syntax for the SET OPTIONS statement is shown below:

►►── SET ──┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────►
           └─ OPTions ─┬────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────
                       └─ for STEp ─┘

 ►───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────►
  ────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
      └─┬─────────┬── COLumns ─┬───────┬─ beginning-column ──────────────────
        └─ INPut ─┘            ├─ IS ──┤
                               ├─ ARE ─┤
                               └─ = ───┘

 ►─────────────────────────────────────────┬──────── . ──────────────────────►◄
  ───────────────────────────────────────┬─┘
  ────┬───────────────┬─ ending-column ──┘
      └─┬─ THRough ─┬─┘
        ├─ THRu ────┤
        └─ - ───────┘

beginning-col

Specifies the column at which IDMSFILE should begin scanning in the control statement input records that follow. Characters in columns preceding beginning-col are ignored.

ending-col

Specifies the last column that IDMSFILE should scan in the control statement input records that follow. Characters in columns following ending-col-n are ignored.