DB2 Server for VSE & VM: Database Services Utility

COMMENT

With the COMMENT command, you can document input by supplying Database Services Utility COMMENT commands at appropriate points within the Database Services Utility control command input stream. The utility displays the comments in the report or message file listing. You cannot use SQL comments within Database Services Utility COMMENT commands.

COMMENT Format

>>-COMMENT----'string_constant'--------------------------------><
 

COMMENT

identifies a Database Services Utility COMMENT command. At least one blank must appear after the command identifier.

'string-constant'

is the comment text delimited by single quotation marks. The string-constant can span control command input records, but must begin in the same record that contains the command identifier. All positions of a control command record containing comment text are displayed. A COMMENT command is terminated when a control command input record containing comment text ends with a single quotation mark or a single quotation mark immediately followed by a semicolon. All control command input record positions (normally positions 1-72) after the terminating single quotation mark or single quotation mark and semicolon must be blank. Positions 73-80 of comment text records can still contain sequence numbers (except in DB2 Server for VM when Database Services Utility control command input is being read directly from a terminal).