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Coding Options

The general rules for coding keywords and their options at execution time and view time are as follows:

• Use one or more spaces as delimiters for options.
• Use an equal sign (=) to separate a keyword from its option value. For example, DUMP=ON and DUMP ON are both acceptable.
• Use positions 1 through 72 and ignore positions 73 through 80.

You can specify the following while coding keywords:

• Options in any order; if you repeat an option, the last specified occurrence is applied.
• Any number of options on a line; however, do not split options between two lines.

You can also do the following:

• Denote a comment line with an asterisk in position 1.
• Input an option associated with a keyword when you specify the keyword. To obtain the total default value of the keyword, omit the entire keyword and option.