USE GROUP Directive

The USE GROUP directive assigns a group of items to a single service field. The default data type for the resultant field is alphanumeric.

$ELK USE GROUP

or

*(( ELK USE GROUP ))

or

*>(( ELK USE GROUP ))

Example

Have a single field named "time" instead of three different fields named "hh", "mm", "ss".

Linkage Section.        01 params.           03 p1 pic x(10).       $ELK USE GROUP           03 time.              05 hh pic 99.              05 mm pic 99.              05 ss pic 99.