SCREATE command

The SCLM SCREATE command is similar to the ISPF Edit CREATE command except that the SCLM editor automatically creates an accounting record for the created member, locks it out, and parses it.

If you do not enter a change code on the SCLM Edit - Entry panel (when one is required), SCLM displays the SCLM Edit Profile panel shown in Figure 1. Also, if the language of the member you want to create differs from the language of the member you are editing, enter the SPROF command on the Edit - Entry panel. The SCLM Edit Profile panel appears so that you can specify another language. Otherwise, the newly created member has the same member attributes as the current member.

Note:

If the member to be created already exists in your group, SCLM returns a message indicating that the member already exists. Thus you can avoid inadvertently overwriting members.
If the member to be created has a language that specifies ENCODE=Y, when saving, SCLM encodes the new member. For more information, see Member encoding and decoding.

The SCLM SCREATE command does not offer an extended panel for creating a member outside the hierarchy.


>>-+-SCREATE-+--member-name--+--------+------------------------><
   '-SCRE----'               +-label1-+   
                             '-label2-'

The label parameters indicate the lines from which the new member is created. For example, assume that member OLD has been previously defined to SCLM. The COBOL programming language is associated with member OLD. If you are editing member OLD, place "copy block" (CC) commands in the Line Command field (usually represented by a six-digit number on the far left side of your edit screen) of lines two and five of member OLD, and then issue this command from the command line.

SCREATE NEW

Member NEW will be added to the data set containing member OLD. Furthermore, member NEW will contain lines two through five of member OLD and will also inherit member OLD's association with COBOL. In this case, the block copy commands are the first and second labels passed with the SCREATE command.