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MANDATORY Directive
The MANDATORY directive marks a field as a mandatory field. This information will be reflected in the WSDL file, therefore this directive has effect only for for Web Services of type SOAP.
>>ELK MANDATORY
or
$ELK MANDATORY
or
*(( ELK MANDATORY ))
or
*>(( ELK MANDATORY ))
Example
Specify that p1 is a mandatory field.
       Linkage Section.
       01 params.
      >>ELK MANDATORY
          03 p1 pic x(10).