Arithmetic and assignment commands

ADD

Calculates the sum of two values

COMPUTE

Evaluates an arithmetic expression

DIVIDE

Calculates the quotient of two values

MOVE

Moves a value to a target field

MULTIPLY

Calculates the product of two values

SUBTRACT

Calculates the difference between two values

Conditional commands

EXIT

Terminates a WHILE command

IF

Performs conditional execution

NEXT

Terminates an IF command

WHILE

Iterates a loop based on a condition

Control commands

CONTINUE

Terminates a current process and executes a dialog's premap process

DISPLAY

Displays a dialog's map or reexecutes a dialog's premap process

EXECUTE NEXT FUNCTION

Directs the flow of control in an application defined by the application compiler

INVOKE

Passes control to a lower level dialog

LEAVE

Terminates an CA ADS application

LINK

Passes control to a lower level dialog or to a user program with inline return expected

READ TRANSACTION

Terminates a current process, performs a mapin operation, and selects the next function or response process to be executed

RETURN

Returns control to a higher level dialog

TRANSER

Passes control to a dialog at the same level

WRITE TRANSACTION

Terminates a current process, performs a mapout operation, and passes control within an application (batch only)

Database commands

ACCEPT

Retrieves database keys page group information and database access statistics for navigationally accessed records

BIND PROCEDURE

Establishes communication between a dialog and a DBA-written procedure

COMMIT

Writes checkpoints to the journal file and releases record locks for navigationally accessed records

CONNECT

Connects records in navigationally accessed sets

DISCONNECT

Disconnects records from navigationally accessed sets

ERASE

Erases database records

FIND

Locates navigationally accessed records in the database

GET

Retrieves navigationally accessed records from the database

KEEP

Places locks on navigationally accessed records

MODIFY

Modifies database records

OBTAIN

Locates and retrieves database records

ON

Performs conditional execution based on the outcome of LRF command execution

READY

Specifies an area usage mode for navigational database access

RETURN DB-KEY

Retrieves index entries associated with navigationally accessed database records

ROLLBACK

Requests recovery operations for navigationally accessed records

STORE

Stores database records

Map commands

ATTRIBUTES

Alters map field attributes (an alternative format to MODIFY MAP)

CLOSE

Closes a dialog's input or output file maps (batch only)

GET DETAIL

Retrieves a modified detail occurrence of a pageable map

MODIFY MAP

Alters the options specified for the dialog's map

PUT DETAIL

Creates or modifies a detail occurrence of a pageable map

Queue and scratch management commands

DELETE QUEUE

Deletes queue records

GET QUEUE

Retrieves queue records

PUT QUEUE

Stores queue records

DELETE SCRATCH

Deletes scratch records

GET SCRATCH

Retrieves scratch records

PUT SCRATCH

Stores scratch records

Subroutine commands

CALL

Passes control to a predefined subroutine

DEFINE

Defines a subroutine

GOBACK

Returns control from a subroutine

Utility commands

ABORT

Causes the runtime system to abort the application

ACCEPT

Retrieves runtime status information associated with the current dialog

INITIALIZE RECORDS

Reinitializes a dialog's record buffers

SNAP

Requests a snapshot dump of the areas in memory associated with CA ADS

WRITE PRINTER

Transmits data from a dialog to an CA IDMS/DC or DC/UCF queue for subsequent printing

WRITE TO LOG/OPERATOR

Sends a message to the log file or to the operator's console (batch only)