Sample comment statement:

*THIS IS A COMMENT STATEMENT AND REQUIRES AN ASTERISK.

Sample comment that exceeds 70 characters and requires two comment statements:

*AS MANY COMMENT STATEMENTS AS ARE REQUIRED MAY BE PLACED IN
*THE JES3 INITIALIZATION STREAM.

Sample comment embedded within an initialization statement:

CLASS,NAME=ABC,DEF=YES      This is an embedded comment

Sample comments are included within a continued initialization statement:

CLASS,NAME=ABC,DEF=YES,     *Comment
    MDEPTH=(SY1,10)         *Comment

The following example contains embedded comments and comment statements:

CLASS,NAME=ABC,DEF=YES,    This is a comment
*THIS IS A COMMENT STATEMENT
   MDEPTH=(SY1,         This is a comment
*THIS IS A COMMENT STATEMENT
              10)