IGNORE statement

DFSDDLT0 ignores any statement with an N or a period (.) in column 1.

You can use the N or . (period) to comment out a statement in either the SYSIN or SYSIN2 input streams. Using N or . (period) in a SYSIN2 input stream causes the SYSIN input stream to be ignored as well. The following table gives the format of the IGNORE statement. An example of the statement follows.

Table 1. IGNORE statement
Column	Function	Code	Description
1	Identifies control statement	N or .	IGNORE statement.
2-72	Ignored
73-80	Sequence indication	nnnnnnnn	For SYSIN2 statement override.

Example of IGNORE statement using N or .

 |---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----<
 . NOTHING IN THIS AREA WILL BE PROCESSED.  ONLY THE SEQUENCE NUMBER     67101010
 N WILL BE USED IF READ FROM SYSIN2 OR SYSIN.                            67101020