Format of the EQAOPTS command
When you specify EQAOPTS commands through the EQAOPTS load module, you create them as assembler macro invocations and you must subsequently assemble and link-edit them into the EQAOPTS load module. To provide a consistent format for all forms of EQAOPTS commands, when you specify the EQAOPTS commands at run time, you must use the assembler macro invocation format. The following format rules apply to all EQAOPTS commands:
- EQAOPTS commands must be contained in fixed-length, eighty-byte records.
- The commands must be contained between columns one and seventy-one, with column seventy-two reserved for a continuation indicator. z/OS® Debugger ignores columns seventy-three through eighty.
- Specify an asterisk (*) in column one to indicate a comment. z/OS Debugger ignores comments. Column one must be blank for all non-comment statements.
- The op-code for each EQAOPTS statement must be EQAXOPT and must begin in or after column two and followed by at least one blank.
- A list of one or more operands must follow the EQAXOPT op-code. Separate these operands by a comma and do not embed blanks.
- If a command exceeds the length of one line, you can continue
the command in one of the following ways:
- You can end at the comma following an operand and place a non-blank character in column seventy-two.
- You can use all of the columns through column seventy-one and place a non-blank character in column seventy-two.