Concurrency and compatibility for OPTIONS

The OPTIONS utility has certain concurrency and compatibility characteristics associated with it.

OPTIONS is a utility control statement that you can use to set up an environment for another utility to follow. The OPTIONS statement is stored until a specific utility references the statement. When referenced by another utility, the list is expanded. At that time, the concurrency and compatibility restrictions of that utility apply, with the additional restriction that the catalog tables that are necessary to expand the list must be available for read-only access.