Example 1

The following example shows the use of the alphabetic characters rather than special characters for comparison operators.
//IFBAD     IF  (ABEND | STEP1.RC > 8) THEN
    or
//IFBAD     IF  (ABEND OR STEP1.RC GT 8) THEN
    .
    .
//IFTEST2   IF  (RC > 4 & RC < 8) THEN
    or
//IFTEST2   IF  (RC GT 4 AND RC LT 8) THEN