START

Description

Allows you to send a long command string to a specified data server (by extending the SEND command).

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. The user 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 = An integer identifying the required data server channel.