Format of the control statements

All KDCDEF control statements (apart from the DEFAULT statement on BS2000 systems) have the following format:

control-statement operand1, operand2,...

• control-statement can be entered starting in column 1 or later.

• control-statement must be separated from the operands by at least one blank.

• Each line of the control statement can be up to 240 characters in length. The control statements can be up to 3096 characters in length when continuation lines are used (see "Continuation lines in control statements").

• Comments can be inserted using the statement REMARK or by entering an asterisk (*) in column 1.

• The EJECT statement initiates a page feed in the log. The EJECT line itself is not logged.