OPTION statement

The OPTION statement (see Figure 1) defines the test or series of tests to be performed upon the data of the candidate record to determine whether it is selected. Each OPTION statement constructs one set of tests. You can specify one or more OPTION statements, in any combination, to define more closely the selection criteria and output processing to be performed against each input record. If you omit all keyword operands (except for EXITR and DDNAME), all records processed by stage 2 of DFHJUP are either written to the SYSPRINT data set, or copied to the specified output data set.

You can execute one or more tests on each logical record by coding the appropriate number of OPTION statements, creating the logical OR function. You can analyze records with the logical AND function by using the multifield test capability of the COND operand and the appropriate OPTION statements, creating a test series. Use the operands COND=M and COND=E to denote the beginning and ending, respectively, of a series for multifield testing of a record.

Each OPTION statement has its own output processing defaults. If you use multiple OPTION statements to create a multifield test series, final output processing is determined by the OPTION statement and its associated keywords that are defined along with the COND=E keyword.