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vy
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Hi all,
How to continue in next line for INITIAL verb where i need to display the label of length 50 using single DFHMDF macro. Thanks in advance. |
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Robert Sample
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Have you tried what the manual (link at the top of the page) says about continuation of BMS lines:
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| When coding, you should have the title in column 1, the macro in column 10, continuation lines should have * in column 72 and continue on column 16 on the next line. |
Or there's always the option of splitting the text into smaller lines that will fit on one line. |
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vy
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First of all thanks for your reply.
I understand what you mention for continuation but here in case of initial I like to display a label of 60 characters if I start my label from say 18th column in the BMS Map code I can not fit in the same line So I should use the continuation character * and continued in the second line but second line is not displayed on the screen in continuation with first line. Can you please suggest me that.
----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7--
CONFVAR DFHMDF POS=(20,23), X
LENGTH=47, X
ATTRB=(BRT,PROT), X
INITIAL='WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONFIRM THIS SSN X
(Y/N)?' |
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Robert Sample
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The manual indicates it works (from the CICS TS 3.2 Information Center):
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# Initial values (the INITIAL, XINIT, and GINIT keywords) are exceptions to the rule, because they may not fit even if you start on a new line. Except when double-byte characters are involved, you can split them at any point after the first character of the initial value itself. When you split in this way, use all of the columns through 71 and continue in column 16 of the next line. Double-byte character set (DBCS) data is more complicated to express than ordinary single-byte (SBCS) data. See Step 12 if you have DBCS initial values.
# Surround initial values by single quote marks. If you need a single quote within your text, use two successive single quotes (the assembler removes the extra one). Ampersands also have special significance to the assembler, and you use the same technique: use two ampersands where you want one, and the assembler removes the extra.
# If you use more than one line for a macro, put a character (any one except a blank) in column 72 of all lines except the last. |
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| Thank you. It worked. |
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Robert Sample
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Glad to hear the manual was right!  |
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