Using QMF

Using the EXIT command in QMF procedures

QMF stops after the EXIT command runs.

A procedure also stops after it runs the command on its bottom line. If this command is not EXIT, one of three things happens:

• For a subordinate procedure, control is returned to the calling procedure without ending QMF. This is true in both batch and interactive modes.
• For a main procedure in batch mode, QMF is ended.
• For a main procedure in interactive mode, control returns to the user, in QMF (unless the procedure is an initial procedure).

Ending a main procedure in batch mode always ends QMF. This is why the sample batch procedure does not need the EXIT command.