9. If a line comment contains the characters HEADER anywhere in it, it is not

 

 

 

treated as a comment and is parsed like any ordinary line in case it is a

 

 

 

HEADER statement. Otherwise comment lines are thrown away.

 

10.

The only valid values for AFFINITY are GLOBAL, LUNAME, USERID, and

 

 

BAPPL. NONE is not allowed.

 

 

11. Keywords and values (including surrounding brackets) must not be split across

 

 

 

input lines.

 

 

12. Nested brackets are not allowed within values.

 

 

13. The Builder is case sensitive. This applies to both keywords and their values

 

 

 

(keywords must be in upper case).

 

 

Any syntax error causes an error message to be issued. Logic errors are also

 

 

possible; for example, CREATE DTRINGRP before CREATE TRANGRP can cause

 

 

error messages to be issued.

 

 

Any such errors do not cause the Builder to terminate immediately, but normally

 

 

cause a skip to either the next keyword or the next statement, depending on the

 

 

error. The Builder terminates with return code of 8 when EOF is ®nally reached. An

 

 

error report lists all errors encountered. For each error, the line containing the error

 

 

is output, plus up to four preceding lines for the same statement to put the error in

 

 

context, plus the error message.

input_statement

=

{create_statement

 

 

remove_statement

 

 

header_statement

 

 

context_statement

 

 

comment}

create_statement

=

CREATE

 

 

 

{create_trangrp

 

 

create_dtringrp}

 

 

;

 

create_trangrp

=

TRANGRP

 

 

 

NAME

(trangroup)

 

 

AFFINITY

({GLOBALLUNAMEUSERID})

 

 

AFFLIFE

({PERMANENTSYSTEMLOGONSIGNONPCONV})

 

 

[DESC

(string)]

 

 

[MATCH

({LUNAMEUSERID})]

 

 

[STATE

({ACTIVEDORMANT})]

create_dtringrp

=

DTRINGRP

 

 

 

TRANGRP (trangroup)

 

 

TRANID

(tranid)

remove_statement =

REMOVE

 

 

 

TRANGRP

 

 

 

NAME

(trangroup)

 

 

;

 

context_statement = CONTEXT

 

 

 

[plexname]

 

 

;

 

header_statement =

HEADER

 

 

 

[APPLID

(applid)]

 

 

[SAVEDATE (date)]

 

 

[SAVETIME (time)]

 

 

;

 

comment

=

©*©

 

 

 

[string

 

 

header_statement]

Figure 10. Builder input syntax

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