OUTPUT Directive

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OUTPUT Directive

The OUTPUT directive defines an output parameter for the web service. By default all the Linkage Section data items become input/output parameters. Use this directive to define an output only parameter. When the directive is placed on top of a group item, it’s inherited by all the sub-items.

$ELK OUTPUT

*(( ELK OUTPUT ))

*>(( ELK OUTPUT ))

Example

In the resulting Web Service, the field p1 will be an input parameter, the field p2 will be an i/o parameter while the field p3 will be an output parameter.

Linkage Section.

$ELK INPUT

01 p1 pic x(10).

01 p2 pic x(10).

$ELK OUTPUT

01 p3 pic x(10).