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Tutorial › Programs That Copy a Screen Image to a Data Set › Explanation of SCREEN2 Program › KEY and ENTER Statements

KEY and ENTER Statements

The following KEY and ENTER statements enter the name of the data set member to which the screen data will be copied:

KEY '''TPX.USER.PANELS(SCREEN)''' 
ENTER

The extra single quotes are necessary because the string itself contains single quotes. The outermost pair of quotes identifies the string to ACL/E, while the two inner pairs of quotes represent the single quotes that TSO expects in the name of the data set member.