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Components Used with the FIRST Command

The FIRST command applies to the following components. Default column boundaries for each component are also listed.

 

Column Edited

Column Boundaries

Member

Data area

1‑72

Report

 

 

Detail

Field name

1‑25

Heading

Field name

1‑56

Column

Field name

1‑25

Program

 

 

Procedure

Data area

1‑72

Parameter

Field name

1‑19

Working data

Field name

1‑19

Dataview

 

 

Field

Field name

1‑19

Key (VSAM)

Field name

1‑32

Plan

 

 

DBRM

DBRM

1‑8

Resource

Program name

1‑8

If you use the n operand to search for all occurrences or any number of occurrences greater than 1, FIRST displays only those lines containing the string. You can use the following commands without changing this display.

FIND, FIRST, NEXT, LAST, PREVIOUS (where n > 1)
IGNORE
SCROLL

The use of any command other than those listed above replaces this display with a display showing the lines of data in sequence.

Example

The FIRST command searches for the first three occurrences of the string NUMBER.

 => FIRST 3 /NUMBER/                                                            
 ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....
 IDEAL: PROCEDURE DEFINITION  PGM CRTEST (001) TEST           SYS: $ID  FILL-IN 
                                                                                
 ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7..Command
 ================================ T O P ================================= ======
 SELECT                                                                   000100
 WHEN $ENTER-KEY                                                          000200
  FOR EMPLOYEE                                                            000300
  WHERE EMPLOYEE.NUMBER = DISPLANEL.NUMBER                                000400
  MOVE DISPANEL TO EMPLOYEE BY NAME                                       000500
  WHEN NONE                                                               000600
  SET DISPANEL.MSG = 'EMPLOYEE DELETED'                                   000700
  SET ATTR HIGHLIGHT TEMP ON DISPANEL.NUMBER                              000800
  ENDFOR                                                                  000900
  SET NEXT_PANEL = 'DISPANEL'                                             001000
 WHEN $PF11                                                               001100
  SET NEXT_PANEL = 'EMPMENU'                                              001200
 WHEN $PF12                                                               001300
  DO TERMINATE_SES                                                    001400
 WHEN $ENTER-KEY                                                          001500
  FOR EMPLOYEE                                                            001600
  WHERE EMPLOYEE.NUMBER = DISPLANEL.NUMBER                                001700

The lines that contain the string are displayed.

 =>


....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....
 IDEAL: PROCEDURE DEFINITION  PGM CRTEST (001) TEST           SYS: $ID  FILL-IN 
INCL /NUMBER/                                                                   
 ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7..Command
 ================================ T O P ================================= ======
  WHERE EMPLOYEE.NUMBER = DISPLANEL.NUMBER                                000400
  SET ATTR HIGHLIGHT TEMP ON DISPANEL.NUMBER                              000800
  WHERE EMPLOYEE.NUMBER = DISPLANEL.NUMBER                                001700