DS-area statement (optional)

This describes areas of the CSECT being disassembled which are uninitialized storage areas. These text areas are cleared to binary zeros before the disassembly begins. Use of this statement forces the creation of DS assembly opcodes, eliminating the creation of instructions or data constants. Up to 256 DS-area statements may be entered. These statements may occur anywhere in the input stream after the module-CSECT statement, but not within a DSECT definition set.

Table 1. DS-area statement: format
Column	Contents
1–2	literal 'DS'
3 onwards	one or more spaces offset to beginning of area, in hexadecimal one or more spaces offset to end of area (last byte), in hexadecimal