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PRINT Usage Notes

When the beginning and ending days of the month fall on available processing days, they are specifically indicated. Periods are used to bracket these days (for example, .B01. or .E12.). They are enclosed in parentheses when beginning/ending days of the month fall on nonavailable processing days.

The PRINT command is useful for generating and verifying perpetual calendars. When the command is issued for a base calendar that does not exist, but has a criteria member in the PCALDSN data set, the calendar is generated and displayed. For example, assume that you issue the following command:

PRINT,SCAL=WK,YEAR=14

If the base calendar SCAL14WK does not exist and the member PCALYYWK is in the perpetual calendar PDS, SCAL14WK is generated from the criteria in PCALYYWK. That generated calendar displays as the PRINT command output.