Control Statements

CA JARS Wizard uses the following control statements. With the exception of a few instances, the exact sequence the control statements are specified in is not important. The instances where it is important are explicitly identified during the discussion of the specific control statements in this chapter. The general rule is to place the control statements that establish an item's identity, such as the INPUT or DEFINE statements, before the item is referenced.

Statement		Function

BREAK	Organizes records into control break groups and calculates group totals for numeric fields.
CALENDAR	Produces a report in monthly calendar format.
CALL	Passes control to a subroutine.
COMPUTE	Inserts arithmetic, assignment, and logical processing instructions into the run and transfers control to a statement other than the next sequential statement in the program.
COPY	Copies a set of one or more control statements or sequential files from the CA JARS Wizard source statement library and inserts them into the run request.
DECODE	Assigns a value to a data field based on the data contents of another field.
DEFINE	Establishes new work data fields and redefines or renames existing data fields.
EXCEPTION	Produces a listing of records meeting special selection criteria.
HEADING	Supplies from one to six lines of text to be printed at the top of each report page.
INPUT	Identifies the input data file or files for the run.
LIST	Specifies the data fields to include in a report print line.
OUTPUT	Specifies the output file to be created.
PARAMETER	Overrides some of automatic page formatting functions, and establishes other options for the run and for compilation output.
PLOT	Produces a report in graph form.
RANK	Produces a summary report with records listed in ascending or descending order of a selected data field.
REJECT	Specifies which input records to bypass.
SELECT	Specifies which input records to process.
SORT	Defines the sequence in which the input file is to be sorted for the run.
TITLE	Prints a special line of text over two or more adjacent data columns to highlight a relationship.
TITLE(V)	Provides a title for a column of vertical totals.
XTAB	Produces a cross-tabulation report.
*	An asterisk in position 1 designates a comment.