Comment

A comment is a character string that serves as documentation for a CA Ideal command in a member or in a batch jobstream. Comments are not executable. A line that begins with a colon is treated as a comment. You can place a comment character before any command to prevent its execution. Because the comment ends at the end of the line, no special character is required to terminate the comment.

A comment is indicated by a character set for the site or session by the SET COMMAND COMMENT command or the installed default‑a colon.

Example

Batch Jobstream

DUP PGM A PROD NEXT     : copy prod ver
COMPILE *               : compile it
MARK * PROD             : make it prod