Positions 7-80 (Keywords)

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The control-specification keywords are used to determine how the program will deal with devices and how certain types of information will be represented.

The control-specification keywords also include compile-option keywords that override the default or specified options on the CRTBNDRPG and CRTRPGMOD commands. These keywords determine the compile options to be used on every compile of the program.