Utility Control Statements

IEBGENER is controlled by utility control statements. The statements and the order in which they must appear are listed in Table 1.

The control statements are included in the control data set as required. If no utility control statements are included in the control data set, the entire input data set is copied sequentially.

When the output is to be sequential and editing is to be performed, one GENERATE statement and as many RECORD statements as required are used. If you are providing exit routines, an EXITS statement is required.

When the output is to be partitioned, one GENERATE statement, one MEMBER statement per output member, and RECORD statements, as required, are used. If you are providing exit routines, an EXITS statement is required.

A continuation line must start in columns 4 to 16, and a nonblank continuation line in column 72 is optional.

Table 1. IEBGENER utility control statements
Statement	Use
GENERATE	Indicates the number of member names and alias names, record identifiers, literals, and editing information contained in the control data set.
EXITS	Indicates that user routines are provided.
LABELS	Specifies user-label processing.
MEMBER	Specifies the member name and alias of a member of a partitioned data set or PDSE to be created.
RECORD	Defines a record group to be processed and supplies editing information.