Use this file-level keyword to remove option and response indicators from the buffer or record area, and to 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 specify the INDARA keyword, you can add, change, or delete option and response indicators in the DDS and recompile the file without recompiling the high-level language program. This is allowed because the field locations in the buffer have not changed and, therefore, the level check data has not changed. However, if the program is to take advantage of the new indicators, the program still needs to be changed and recompiled.
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 41 FAIL
00030A RCVTRNRND(14 'Turn around')
00040A R RCD
00050A ACTNBR 10
A
With the INDARA keyword specified, option indicator 41 and response indicator 14 are removed from the buffer for RCD and placed in the separate indicator area. Only ACTNBR, a named field, remains in the buffer for record format RCD.