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CLIST Conditional Commands

CLIST conditional commands include:

• IFC
• ELSE
• ENDIF

These commands provide a conditional facility for the CA IDMS DMLO CLIST. Allowable formats are:

 IFC conditional
    true-stmt1
    ...
    true-stmtn
 ELSE
    false-stmt1
    ...
    false-stmtn
 ENDIF

 IFC conditional
    true-stmt1
    ...
    true-stmtn
 ENDIF

Where:

true-stmtx-represents any CA IDMS DML or CA IDMS DMLO commands, including EXEC, IFC, and REPEAT.

false-stmtx-represents any CA IDMS DML or CA IDMS DMLO commands, including EXEC, IFC, and REPEAT.

valid conditionals-operand1, relational, operand2, or %NULLn

valid relationals- = < > EQ GT LT GE LE NE NG NL MATCHES CONTAINS

valid operands-all the following are valid operands:

• field-name [OF record-name]
• ERROR-STATUS (subschema control)
• DIRECT-DBKEY (subschema control)
• DBKEY (subschema control)
• CA IDMS DMLO KEYPADS (KEY0 - KEY9)
• Character literal 'ABCDEFG'
• Hexadecimal literal X'hhhhhhhh'
• Numeric literal 123 or 12.345
• Fullword literal F'1234567'
• Database key literal pppppp-lll
• Figurative constant HIGH-VALUES LOW-VALUES SPACES ZEROS
• %NULLn (only to test %n for null value)