END

Description:

Terminates the sending of a long command string to a data server.

All command lines following a START entry will be concatenated to form a composite command of any required length until terminated by a corresponding END entry.

The maximum length for a single query line is 120 characters.

The maximum total length for the overall query string (that means, all lines between the START and END commands) is 4095 characters.

Example:

EXTERNAL SEND $!!MAINT START
    ’select refno, servint, lastserv from maintdata’
    ’where elementtype = ’’EQUIPMENT’’’
END

Note:
The use of multiple delimiting ’’ characters for nesting text within text in this example. You could, alternatively, write the example using ‘vertical bar’ text delimiters, thus:

EXTERNAL SEND $!!MAINT START

    |select refno, servint, lastserv from maintdata|
    |where elementtype = ’EQUIPMENT’|

END

Syntax:

                                         .-----<-----.
                                        /            |
>-- EXTERnal SENd server_token START --*-- text nl --+-- END -->

where:

server_token is an integer identifying the required data server channel.