Utility Commands › INITIALIZE RECORDS

INITIALIZE RECORDS

Purpose

Reinitializes one or more of a dialog's record buffers.

Syntax

►►─── INITialize records ────┬─ ALL ────────────────────┬─── . ───────────────►◄
                             │     ┌───────────────┐    │
                             └─ ( ─▼─ record-name ─┴─) ─┘

Parameters

ALL

Reinitializes the buffers for all subschema, map, and work records referenced by the issuing dialog, regardless of which dialog originally allocated the buffers.

record-name

Reinitializes the buffer for each record specified by record-name. The named records must be associated with the issuing dialog.

Usage

Considerations

• After execution of an INITIALIZE RECORDS command, the record elements in the specified record buffers contain their original values, as follows:
  • If the record element is defined with a VALUE IS clause, the buffer is reinitialized with the defined value.
  • If the record element definition has no VALUE IS clause, the buffer is reinitialized either with spaces (EBCDIC and DBCS fields) or with zeros of the appropriate data type (numeric fields).