HIDDEN Directive

This directive allows a field to be marked as hidden. This will avoid the need to convert a field into a database field. The field will be ignored by the external interfaces that read the EFD file.

$EFD HIDDEN

or

*(( EFD HIDDEN ))

or

*>(( EFD HIDDEN ))

Example

The field USELESS will not appear in the database

$EFD HIDDEN  05 USELESS        PIC X(32).