Line continuations

When you continue a command to the next line during batch processing (for instance from the batch reader or a PARMLIB member), insert a plus or minus sign as the last character of each line except the last line of the command. If a comment is included on the same line, the plus or minus sign follows the comment. Refer to Comments for information about comments. When you use a plus sign, leading delimiters are removed from the continued line.

For commands entered from a TSO terminal, do not use a line-continuation character. All command examples in this book are commands entered for batch processing.

Example: The following is an example of a line continuation with a comment and a line continuation that does not have a comment.

   SETSYS AUTOBACKUPSTART(1800 2100 2300) /* set start times */  +
          AUTOMIGRATIONSTART(2300 0600 0800)  +
          BACKUP BACKUPPREFIX(HSM)