Directives that you set explicitly by typing them into
Additional Directives:
NAMES
PCOMP
PREPASM
REDEFINPUT
STRNAME
SYSLIB
VERBOSE
Key to BMS Directives
Descriptions for all of the BMS directives appear alphabetically.
ALIGN
Specifies that data items are to be aligned on halfword boundaries.
CS
Specifies the character to be used as the currency sign.
DP
Specifies the character used as the decimal point.
DSECT
Specifies the filename you want to use for the copybook to be created when the .bms file is compiled.
HLL
Specifies whether or not long labels can be used for macros in .bms files.
IGNORE
Specifies that any SDF comment lines are to be ignored.
LEVEL
Specifies that data definitions generated in the copybook are to use a specific set of level numbers.
MAP
Specifies the filename you want to use for the load module to be created when the .bms file is compiled.
NAMES
Specifies additional NLS (National Locale Support) characters that are to be allowed in macro labels.
PREFIX
Specifies the SDF prefix to be used for SDF data items generated in the copybook.
PCOMP
Enables you to specify a user program as a precompiler for BMS files.
PREPASM
Specifies that the Assembler preprocessor is to be called before the BMS source is compiled, to expand COPY statements and hand-coded BMS macros in the BMS files into standard BMS statements.
REDEFINPUT
Specifies that each field's attribute byte redefines the flag byte in the input map.
SDF
Specifies that the .bms file contains SDF features.
STRNAME
Specifies a top-level name for a map to be generated in the copybook.
SYSPARM
Specifies which files are to be generated when the .bms file is compiled.
SYSLIB
Specifies the location of the Assembler macro library when the /PREPASM directive is specified.
VERBOSE
Specifies that informational and warning messages will be displayed during the compilation of the .bms file.
