Comparison between LMSCONV and LMS

Global restrictions in LMSCONV compared to LMS:

• No creation of delta-stored members

• No structured output, i.e. no output to S variables

• No modification of library and type attributes

• No support for a start file

The following LMS statements are not supported:

ACTIVATE-USER-EXIT
BEGIN-MAKE
CALL-EDT
COMPARE-ELEMENT
DEACTIVATE-USER-EXIT
EDIT-ELEMENT
EXECUTE-SYSTEM-COMMAND
FIND-ELEMENT
MODIFY-ELEMENT-PROTECTION
MODIFY-LIBRARY-ATTRIBUTES
MODIFY-TYPE-ATTRIBUTES
PROVIDE-ELEMENT
REORGANIZE-LIBRARY
RESET-Anweisungen
RETURN-ELEMENT
SHOW-STATISTICS

The following table shows the syntax restrictions compared to LMS:

Statement	Restriction
ADD-ELEMENT	No *HIGH,*INCR,BASE,STORAGE-FORM for TO-ELEMENT No PROTECTION
CLOSE-LIBRARY	./.
COPY-ELEMENT	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT No *HIGH,*INCR,BASE,STORAGE-FORM for TO-ELEMENT No PROTECTION
COPY-LIBRARY	./.
DELETE-ELEMENT	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT
END	./.
EXTRACT-ELEMENT	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT No INFORMATION No PROTECTION
MODIFY-DEFAULTS	No STORAGE-FORM for ELEMENT-ATTRIBUTES No DELTA-STRUCTURE for INFORMATION No PROTECTION No COMPARE-PARAMETERS
MODIFY-ELEMENT	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT No *HIGH,*INCR,BASE for TO-ELEMENT
MODIFY-ELEMENT-ATTRIBUTES	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT No selection via STATE No WRITE-MODE Only CODED-CHARACTER-SET exists for NEW-ATTRIBUTES
MODIFY-LOGGING-PARAMETERS	No EDT(...) for TEXT-OUTPUT No BASE for ELEMENT
OPEN-LIBRARY	./.
SHOW-DEFAULTS	No PROTECTION No COMPARE-PARAMETERS
SHOW-ELEMENT	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT
SHOW-ELEMENT-ATTRIBUTES	No selection via BASE for ELEMENT No EXCEPT No selection via ACCESS-DATE/TIME No selection via STATE No selection via STORAGE-FORM No selection via ELEMENT-SIZE No selection via PROTECTION No selection via DELTA-STRUCTURE for INFORMATION No *BY-CREATION-DATE,    *BY-MODIFICATION-DATE,    *BY-ACCESS-DATE,    *BY-ELEMENT-SIZE for SORT No TEXT-OUTPUT No STRUCTURE-OUTPUT
SHOW-LIBRARY-ATTRIBUTES	No TEXT-OUTPUT No STRUCTURE-OUTPUT
SHOW-LIBRARY-STATUS	./.
SHOW-LOGGING-PARAMETERS	./.
SHOW-TYPE-ATTRIBUTES	No TEXT-OUTPUT No STRUCTURE-OUTPUT
SHOW-USER-EXITS	./.
WRITE-COMMENT	./.

Converting from LMSCONV to LMS

All LMSCONV statements and operands are valid in LMS, provided that the full statement names or the guaranteed abbreviations are used. Thus, conversion from LMSCONV to LMS presents no problem to the user.