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Additional Qualifiers

Some entity types require or allow qualifiers in addition to those specified using the NAME and VERSION clauses. These entity types and their corresponding qualifiers are shown in the following table.

Entity type

Additional qualifier

Notes

ATTRIBUTE

WITHIN CLASS

Required when ADD/CREATE is specified. Required for other verbs when the attribute that is specified is not unique in the dictionary.

LOAD MODULE

MODULE TYPE

Optional; if MODULE TYPE is specified, the compiler makes sure the load module named in a MODIFY/ALTER or DELETE/DROP statement is of the same type.

MAP

WITHIN PANEL

Required when ADD/CREATE is specified.

MODULE

LANGUAGE

Required if a version of HIGHEST or LOWEST is specified or defaulted to.

 

TYPE

Required when ADD/CREATE is specified.

More information: For more information about the qualifiers shown in the previous table, see the syntax and parameter descriptions for the corresponding entity types in Entity-Type Syntax.