Planning a DELTA List Creation from Stage-1 Macros

Assembler H Version 2 is required.

No user verification or keyword table validation is performed when creating DELTA Lists from IMS Stage-1 macros. Anyone with write access to the DELTA PDS data set can create a DELTA List. All keywords and parameters are allowed and are placed in the DELTA List.

If the DELTA IMS Convert utility is subsequently used to convert the DELTA List to IMS Stage-1 macros, the macros created will not necessarily match the macros used to create the DELTA List.

The DELTA List assembly step may result in a nonzero return code. MNOTEs in the assembly listing will explain the error. RC=8 indicates a syntax error--defaults are used instead of the value specified. RC=4 indicates a missing or an extraneous value. If a value is missing, the default is used. An extraneous value is ignored.