If you cannot fit your STATS statement (or any other ICETOOL operator statement) between columns 1 and 72 of a single line, you can continue it across multiple lines. If you end a line with a hyphen (-) after the operator or any operand, the next line is treated as a continuation. Any characters specified after the hyphen are ignored.

Note that the operator and each operand must be completely specified on one line (between columns 1 and 72).

For example:

STATS        - this is the operator
     FROM(ALL) - ALL is the ddname for SORT.BRANCH
        ON(18,4,ZD)-
        ON(28,6,PD)-
        ON(22,6,PD)