INPUT Directive

The INPUT directive defines an input parameter for the web service. By default all the Linkage Section data items become input/output parameters. Use this directive to define an input only parameter. When the directive is placed on top of a group item, it’s inherited by all the sub-items.

$ELK INPUT

or

*(( ELK INPUT ))

or

*>(( ELK INPUT ))

Example

In the resulting Web Service, the field p1 will be an input parameter, the field p2 will be an i/o parameter while the field p3 will be an output parameter.

Linkage Section.       $ELK INPUT        01 p1 pic x(10).        01 p2 pic x(10).       $ELK OUTPUT        01 p3 pic x(10).