Keyword statements can help you map the fields in your records by letting you set a starting position, skip unused bytes, and align fields on specific boundaries. The available keyword statements are:

• POSITION,q - sets the next position and previous position to q for use with * and = in a subsequent field symbol. For example:

     POSITION,8
      Syma,*,2,FI

  assigns position 8 to Syma.
• POSITION,symbol - sets the next position and previous position to the position of the specified field symbol for use with * and = in a subsequent field symbol. POSITION,symbol can be used like the Assembler ORG instruction. For example:

     Sym1,20,10,BI
      Sym2,*,18,CH
      Sym3,*
      POSITION,Sym1
      Sym4,*,6,ZD
      Sym5,*,4,ZD

  assigns position 20 to Sym4 (that is, Sym4 and Sym5 overlay Sym1).
• SKIP,n- skips nbytes for use with * in a subsequent field symbol.
• ALIGN,x- aligns the next position on a specific boundary for use with * in a subsequent field symbol. xcan be H for halfword alignment, F for fullword alignment or D for doubleword alignment.