SEQUENCE
When you use SEQUENCE
, the compiler examines
columns 1 through 6 to check that the source statements are arranged
in ascending order according to their EBCDIC collating sequence. The compiler issues a
diagnostic message if any statements are not in ascending order.
Source statements with blanks in columns 1 through 6 do not participate in this sequence check and do not result in messages.
Default is: SEQUENCE
Abbreviations
are: SEQ
| NOSEQ
If you
use COPY
statements with the SEQUENCE
option
in effect, be sure that your source program's sequence fields and
the copybook sequence fields are coordinated.
If you use NUMBER
and SEQUENCE
,
the sequence is checked according to numeric, rather than EBCDIC, collating
sequence.
If you are doing a batch compilation
and SEQUENCE
is in effect,
all programs in the batch compilation are treated as a single input
file. The sequence numbers of the entire input file must be in ascending
order.
Use NOSEQUENCE
to suppress this checking
and the diagnostic messages.