Unrestricted Utility Commands

Most utility commands can appear in any state. The table Table 1 shows this by the absence of asterisks in the columns.

The dashed lines indicate that after a utility command is processed, the program remains in the same state it was in before the command execution. INIT, TRANS, or PROC indicates that the command moves the program to that state. For example, if the program is in the procedure state, N OF CASES moves the program to the transformation state. The FINISH command terminates command processing wherever it appears. Any commands appearing after FINISH will not be read and therefore will not cause an error.