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OPTION Statement

The program SCREEN1 begins with the following OPTION statements:

OPTION FLOW,OFF 
OPTION TERM,ON 
OPTION MAXI,9999

• OPTION FLOW,OFF says not to record the statements executed in the CA TPX log.
• OPTION TERM,ON says to display data as it is entered. This allows you to watch the screen data being copied into the data set member.
• OPTION MAXI,9999 says to set the maximum number of instructions executed to 9999.