Please remember the following when entering commands:
You must insert commas to separate the individual operands of a command, e.g.
/TRANSFER-FILE TRANSFER-DIRECTION=TO,PARTNER=CENTRE,LOCAL-PARAMETER=...Quotes within quotes must be doubled. This rule applies to all value assignments that have to be specified in quotes.
If there is no default value marked (by underscoring) for an operand, then it must be specified with a valid value (mandatory operand).
You may abbreviate your entries for commands and operands, provided you ensure that your entries retain their uniqueness. You can also use positional parameters if you wish. Short forms and long forms can be mixed at will. Certain abbreviated forms of keywords and a number of positional operands are guaranteed for openFT. This means that these options will also be offered in the same format in later versions. To be “on the safe side”, you should therefore form the habit of entering these commands in their abbreviated form. Make sure that you always use the guaranteed abbreviated forms in procedures, since this will ensure that they execute correctly even in subsequent versions. The recommended abbreviations are used in the examples shown in this chapter, and the possible abbreviations are listed in the individual command formats.
If a structure is preceded by an introductory operand (e.g. *BS2000 is an introductory operand in “REM=*BS2000(...)”), then the opening parentheses must immediately follow this operand. Introductory operands may be omitted if there is no risk of ambiguity.
The asterisk preceding keywords may be omitted if there is no risk of ambiguity. Please note that this is not a guaranteed abbreviation.
If positional operands are explicitly permitted in the syntax, values may be specified interchangeably in both positional and keyword form.
In this case, the following rules must be observed:
The first value specified as a positional operand is assigned to the first operand, the second value to the second operand, and so on.
For each operand omitted before a positional operand, a comma must be entered.
If one operand is assigned one value specification each in positional and keyword form, the last specification in the structural parentheses applies. This is always the specification in keyword form, since the positional operand must always come first.
The positional operands must be listed first. For the sake of clarity, duplicate value assignments should be avoided.
Since it is possible that the sequence of operands could be changed in later versions, only keyword parameters should be used within procedures.