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Input Card Keywords

Use the following keywords on an input control card:

COMMAND

Used to enter commands typically entered on the command line.

DATA

Used to enter input data that is in the body of a display. The parameter of the DATA keyword has the following format:

(subscript,input)

To determine the subscript parameter:

  1. Assign a 1 to the first input field in the body of a display screen.
  2. Add 1 for each input field after the first input field.

The order of the input fields is from left to right, top to bottom. The input parameter is the input data that would typically be entered in the input field.

MENUON and MENUOFF

Controls the printing of any MENU command output to the SYSPRINT data set.

Default: MENUON

PRINTON and PRINTOFF

Controls the printing of all command output to the SYSPRINT data set. PRINTOFF also suppresses the printing of the internal COMMAND=DOWN statements generated by the SCROLL keyword.

Default: PRINTON

SCROLL

Simulates a scrolling action until the end of the data is reached. This keyword issues successive DOWN commands until all of the data is displayed. For example, if you issued the VTOC command and you wanted to display all of the data sets, use the SCROLL keyword. The SCROLL keyword is not valid when the DUMP command is active.