OPTION statement

Use the OPTION statement to override various default options.

Use multiple OPTION statements if you cannot fit all the options you want in one statement. No continuation character is necessary. Once you set an option, it remains in effect until you specify another OPTION statement to change the first parameter. The following table shows the format of the OPTION statement. An example follows.

Table 1. OPTION statement
Column	Function	Code	Description
1	Identifies control statement	O	OPTION statement (free-form parameter fields).
2	Reserved	b	b
3-72	Keyword parameters:
	ABORT=	0 1 to 9999	Turns the ABORT parameter off. Number of unequal compares before aborting job. Initial default is 5.
	LINECNT=	10 to 99	Number of lines printed per page. Must be filled with zeros. Initial default 54.
	SNAP¹	x	SNAP option default, when results of compare are unequal. To turn the SNAP option off, code 'SNAP='. Initial default is 5 if this option is not coded. This causes the I/O buffer pool and the DL/I blocks to be dumped with a SNAP call.
	DUMP/NODUMP		Produce/do not produce dump if job abends. Default is NODUMP.
	LCASE=	H C	Hexadecimal representation for lower case characters. This is the initial default. Character representation for lower case characters.
	STATCD/NOSTATCD		Issue/do not issue an error message for the internal, end-of-job stat call that does not receive a blank or GA status code. NOSTATCD is the default.
	ABU249/NOABU249		Issue/do not issue a DFSDDLT0 ABENDU0249 when an invalid status code is returned for any of the internal end-of-job stat calls in a batch environment. NOABU249 is the default.
73 - 80	Sequence indication	nnnnnnnn	For SYSIN2 statement override.
Note: SNAP is a Product-sensitive Programming Interface.

OPTION statement parameters can be separated by commas.

Example of OPTION control statement

|---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----<
O ABORT=5,DUMP,LINECNT=54,SPA=4096,SNAP=5                               67101010