WRITE-COMMENT

This statement is used to write comments to the output medium defined by the statement //MODIFY-LOGGING-PARAMETERS TEXT-OUTPUT=..., unlike the WRITE-TEXT statement, which always directs output to SYSOUT or SYSLST.

WRITE-COMMENT

COMMENT = ’ ’ / <c-string 1..1024 with-low>

COMMENT = ' ' / <c-string 1..1024 with-low>
Comment text. If nothing is specified, a blank is used as the default value, i.e. a blank line is generated.

Statement return code

(SC2)	SC1	Maincode	Meaning
2	0 0 1 32 64 130	CMD0001 LMS0129 CMD0230 LMS1002 LMS1004 LMS0041	No error Statement aborted by user Syntax error Internal error Other error System address space exhausted

Example

The text enclosed in apostrophes, which may also extend over multiple lines, is interpreted as a comment.

//write-comment 'This is the last LMS statement to be described.//

A new chapter begins on the next page.'