Use this record-level keyword to specify that the i5/OS™ operating system is to activate the audible alarm when this record is displayed. The alarm is of short duration.
This keyword has no parameters.
If the Error Message (ERRMSG) or Error Message Identifier (ERRMSGID) keyword is in effect, the ALARM keyword has no effect, even if also selected.
To sound the audible alarm when an active ERRMSG or ERRMSGID keyword is on the record, see the MSGALARM (Message Alarm) keyword for display files topic.
Option indicators are valid for this keyword.
The following example shows how to specify the ALARM keyword.
|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8 00005A R CUST 00010A 01 ALARM A