CRT STATUS Clause Considerations

If the CRT STATUS clause is specified in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph, every extended ACCEPT statement places a value into data-name-2 to indicate the outcome of the ACCEPT operation. Data-name-2 consists of status keys which are set to indicate possible conditions resulting from the completion of the operation.

There are three CRT status keys:

CRT Status Key 1: The first two bytes of data-name-2. It indicates the condition that caused the termination of the ACCEPT operation.
CRT Status Key 2: The next two bytes of data-name-2. It gives further details of the condition that caused the termination of the ACCEPT operation.
CRT Status Key 3: The last two bytes of data-name-2. It contains the code for the keyboard key that terminated the ACCEPT operation.