SET OPTIONS Defaults and Overrides

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SET OPTIONS Defaults and Overrides

The IDD installation procedure establishes defaults for most of the DDDL compiler processing options. These defaults remain in effect until they are explicitly changed for one of the following:

Dictionary—you can specify a SET OPTIONS FOR DICTIONARY statement to establish default options for all DDDL compiler sessions that access the current dictionary.
Note: Any option you can specify under SET OPTIONS FOR DICTIONARY you can also specify under SET OPTIONS FOR SESSION.
Single session—you can specify a SET OPTIONS FOR SESSION statement to establish default options for the current DDDL session only.
Note: If you try to use SET OPTIONS FOR DICTIONARY when only SET OPTIONS FOR SESSION is permitted, IDD applies the option to your current session.
Single statement—you can specify optional clauses in an entity-type statement to establish processing options for that statement only.

The following table lists DDDL compiler processing options, their installation default values, and the ways you can change the defaults. Installation defaults are for batch and online processing, unless otherwise noted.


SET OPTIONS clause	Default	Overrides possible for:
		Dictionary	Session	Statement
AFTER IS	OFF	X	X	X
AUTHORIZATION IS	OFF	X
BEFORE IS	OFF	X	X	X
CULPRIT AUTO ATTRIBUTES ARE	OFF	X
DECIMAL- POINT IS PERIOD/COMMA	PERIOD	X	X
DEFAULT FOR EXISTING VERSION IS	1	X	X	X
DEFAULT FOR NEW VERSION IS	1	X	X	X
DEFAULT IS	OFF	X	X
DELETE IS	OFF	X	X
DISPLAY ALL LIMIT	OFF	X	X
DISPLAY AS SYNTAX/ COMMENTS	COMMENTS		X	X
DISPLAY WITH/ ALSO WITH/ WITHOUT	WITH ALL		X	X
DISPLAY VERB	ADD		X	X
ECHO/NO ECHO	ECHO		X
EOF IS	/* (batch)	X	X
FIRST/SECOND/ THIRD/FOURTH ALTERNATE PICTURE KEYWORD	No defaults	X	X
FORMAT IS FIXED/FREE	FREE		X	X
HEADER/ NO HEADER	HEADER (batch) NO HEADER (online)		X
INPUT COLUMNS ARE	1-72 (batch) 1-80 (online)		X
INTERRUPT COUNT IS	0	X	X	X
JCL CODE IS	NULL		X
LEVEL NUMBERS ARE	02-49	X	X
LINES PER PAGE	60		X
LIST/NO LIST	LIST		X
OUTPUT LINE SIZE IS	132 (batch) 80 (online)		X
PASSWORD SECURITY OVERRIDE	OFF	X
PREPARED BY/ REVISED BY	No defaults		X	X
PROMPT/ NO PROMPT	NO PROMPT (batch) NO PROMPT (online; 3270) PROMPT (online; line mode)		X
PUNCH TO	SYSPCH		X	X
QUOTE IS	'	X	X
RESEQUENCE IS	OFF	X	X
REGISTRATION OVERRIDE	No default		X
SECURITY FOR	OFF	X	X
SEMICOLON ALTERNATE	OFF	X	X
SEQUENCE IS	100	X	X	X
USER SIGNON OVERRIDE	ON	X	X

Overriding Clauses

The following DDDL clauses override defaults established by the SET OPTIONS FOR SESSION statement:

The PREPARED/REVISED BY clause of ADD/MODIFY/REPLACE/DELETE/DISPLAY/PUNCH
The SHOW instruction of the EDIT clause
The SEQUENCE instruction of the EDIT clause
The INCREMENT BY parameter of the INSERT and REPLACE instruction of the EDIT clause
The WITH/ALSO WITH/WITHOUT clause of DISPLAY/PUNCH
The VERB clause of DISPLAY/PUNCH
The AS SYNTAX/COMMENTS clause of DISPLAY/PUNCH
The TO clause of PUNCH
The VERSION clause of ADD/MODIFY/REPLACE/DELETE/DISPLAY/PUNCH