BMS Directives

There are a number of Compiler directives that are applicable to BMS files, and, depending on the directive, can be set in one of two ways.

There are two categories of BMS directives:

  1. Directives that you set in Enterprise Developer from the options within the BMS file properties. You should not try to set these explicitly.
    • ALIGN
    • ASM
    • BINARY
    • COBOL
    • CS
    • DP
    • DSECT
    • HLL
    • IGNORE
    • LEVEL
    • MAP
    • PLI
    • PREFIX
    • PREPASM
    • REDEFINPUT
    • SDF
    • SYSPARM
    • VERBOSE
  2. Directives that you set explicitly by typing them into Additional Directives:
    • DASH
    • DEPONLY
    • DSIZE
    • IE
    • NAMES
    • PCOMP
    • STRNAME
    • SYSLIB