Use this file-level keyword to remove option indicators from the buffer (also called the record area) and place them in a 99-byte separate indicator area.
This keyword has no parameters.
If you specify the INDARA keyword, some high-level languages require that you specify in your program that a separate indicator area is to be used. See the appropriate high-level language manual.
If you originally specified the INDARA keyword on a file, you can add, change, or delete option indicators in the DDS and re-create the file without having to re-create the high-level language program. You can do this because the field locations in the buffer have not changed and, therefore, the level check data has not changed. If the program is to take advantage of new indicators, however, change and re-create the program.
Option indicators are not valid for this keyword.
The following example shows how to specify the INDARA keyword.
|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A INDARA
00020A R RCD
00030A 41 SPACEB(1)
00040A ACTNBR 10 2
A
If you specify the INDARA keyword, option indicator 41 is removed from the buffer for record format RCD and placed in the separate indicator area. Only ACTNBR, a named field, remains in the buffer for RCD.