ICETOOL comment and blank statements

Comment statements and blank statements can be placed anywhere among the ICETOOL operator statements.

Comment statements start with an asterisk (*) in column 1 and are printed along with the ICETOOL operator statements.
Blank statements contain blanks in columns 1-72 and are ignored because ICETOOL prints blank lines where appropriate.

A blank statement and a comment statement for our example looks like this:

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Here are the steps for writing these statements:

Table 1. Steps to Create a Blank Statement and a Comment Statement
Step	Action
1	After the TOOLIN DD statement, skip one line.
2	Type an asterisk (*) in column 1 followed by the comment.

When complete, the TOOLIN statements look like this:

//TOOLIN DD *

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For the main ICETOOL job, a comment statement will be placed before each operator to describe its function. Although not required, this is a good practice to follow.

So far

So far, you have been introduced to the basics of the ICETOOL utility. Now, using the following tutorials, you can learn about many of the ICETOOL operators. The following sections contain parts of the main ICETOOL job, so that by the end of the chapter, you will have created the complete main ICETOOL job. At the end of the chapter, there is a section that contains the complete main ICETOOL job and its resulting messages.