A syntax error (error type SYN) occurs if the syntax of a test script does not agree with the syntax of Benchmark Description Language.
If you do not specify the keyword then within an if statement, an error message appears:
8 transaction TMain 9 var 10 j : number init 1; 11 i : array [500] of number; 12 s : array [5] of string(10); 13 begin 14 if j=1 15 j:
compile error SYN 38: 'then' expected --- compilation was not successful ---