Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

IGNORE option

The IGNORE option can be used in a READ statement for any SEQUENTIAL INPUT or SEQUENTIAL UPDATE file.

The expression in the IGNORE option is evaluated and converted to an integer value n. If n is greater than zero, n records are ignored. A subsequent READ statement for the file will access the (n+1)th record. If n is less than 1, the READ statement has no effect.

The following example specifies that the next three records in the file are to be ignored:

  read file (In) ignore (3);

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