The Enhanced SuperC (known as SuperC) is a versatile comparison and search facility that can be used to compare two sets of data (using the SuperC Comparison) or to search a specific set of data for a nominated search string (using the SuperC Search).

At a minimum, the SuperC Comparison requires only the names of the two items to be compared. The SuperC Search requires only the name of the item to be searched and the search string.

You can tailor the comparison or search using process options and process statements. Process options are single keywords that you enter on the PARM parameter (z/OS and z/VSE), a menu (CMS), or the command line (CMS). Process statements consist of a keyword and one or more operands; you pass these to SuperC in an input file.

For example, you can use the process option ANYC ("Any Case") so that SuperC treats uppercase and lowercase characters as the same. (Thus, "d" and "D" are considered to be the same.) You can use the process statement DPLINE ("Do not Process Lines") to ignore the lines (being compared or searched) that contain a specified character string. For example, DPLINE '$' causes all lines that contain the single-character string "$" to be ignored.