Defining a Program › Creating a New Program Definition

Creating a New Program Definition

To create a new program definition, enter the CREATE PROGRAM command and fill in the required program definition panels to define the components of the program definition. As soon as you enter a name for the program on the command line or on the identification fill-in, an entity-occurrence is added to the dictionary for the new program. You can define the remaining components later on an as-needed basis.

The CREATE PROGRAM command and identification fill-in also identify a subprogram to CA Ideal.

The system's protection against editing CA Ideal production status programs does not apply to non‑Ideal programs since they are not maintained in CA Ideal.

The following section describes how to define each component, whether the program is written in CA Ideal or in COBOL, PL/I, or Assembler.