symbol

specifies the symbol (name) that you want to add to the symbol table so that you can refer to an address symbolically. The symbol must consist of 1 to 8 alphanumeric characters, the first of which is an alphabetic character.

address

specifies the address is to equate to the symbol that you specified. You can specify address as:

• An absolute address
• A symbolic address
• A relative address
• An indirect address
• An address expression
• A module name and entry name (separated by a period)
• An entry name (preceded by a period)

data_type

specifies the characteristics you want to attribute to the data at the location given by address. These might be the same as the original characteristics. Indicate the type of data by one of the following codes:

Code	Type of data	Maximum length (bytes)
C	Character	256
X	Hexadecimal	256
B	Binary	256
I	Assembler instruction	256
H	Fixed point binary (halfword)	8
F	Fixed point binary (fullword)	8
E	Floating point (single precision)	8
D	Floating point (double precision)	8
P	Packed decimal	16
Z	Zoned decimal	16
A	Address constant	4
S	Address (base + displacement)	2
Y	Address constant (halfword)	2

ALET(alet_value)

specifies the alternate address/data space that the EQUATEd variable can reference. You can specify from 1 to 8 hexadecimal characters to represent the alet_value.

AR(register_number)

specifies the access register that contains the alet used to determine the alternate address/data space that the EQUATEd variable can reference. Valid access register numbers are 0 through 15.

LENGTH(integer)

specifies the length of the data. The maximum value of the integer is 256. If you do not specify the length, the following default values apply:

Type of data	Default length (bytes)
C,B,P,Z	1
H,S,Y	2
F,E,A,X	4
D	8
I	variable

MULTIPLE(integer)

specifies a multiplicity factor. The multiplicity factor means that one element of the data appears several times in succession. The number of repetitions is indicated by the number specified for integer. The maximum value of the integer is 256.

type - X
multiplicity - 1
length - 4

If both multiplicity and length are specified for data_type I, the multiplicity is ignored.