IBM Release 1.93 manual Command Reference, Poems Command-Line Options, Global Group

3. USING POEMS

Everything in POEMS is case-insensitive. Case is preserved but not significant in file names; specifying two names equal except for case will cause the first to be overwritten in Windows and OS/2 but not in Linux.

3.1. Command Reference

3.1.1. poems Command-Line Options

The calling syntax for POEMS is

	poems parmfile <- option1 <option2 <option3>>>
	where the options are one of DEBUG VERBOSE and RESTART.
	DEBUG prints lots of debugging information,
	VERBOSE prints more detail in the ordinary console output, and
	RESTART causes POEMS to parse the specified simplex file and
	restart the optimization run following the last completed iteration."
3.1.2. GLOBAL Group
ASSERT	Syntax: ASSERT <expression>
	Allows the user to add parameter error checking to the simulations.
	ASSERT functions very much like the assert() macro in C. Each
	time the input file is parsed (i.e. at the beginning of the run and
	before each iteration of the optimizer or stepper), <expression> is
	evaluated. If the result is zero, the run is stopped and a specific
	error message printed.
	Example: ASSERT SourceZ ≤ Zsize-Tpml-lambda
COMMENT	Syntax: COMMENT anything you want to say
	Specifies a string that is to be included in all text and HTML output
	files. Useful for identifying information. You can use as many of
	these as you like. The output files will be more readable if you
	keep the total line length reasonable, e.g. 75 columns.
	Comment lines treat trailing commas as punctuation, not line
	continuation characters, so multi-line comments must be coded as a
	separate COMMENT statement for each comment line.
DEBUG	Syntax: DEBUG onoff
	Output lots of debugging information as the run proceeds. Useful
	mostly for the developer.

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