Arguments
The arguments identify the particular record you want
to delete. Two ways you can do this are:
- Specify field names of the record as argument names and specify
the addresses of field values, to identify the particular record you
want to delete. The values can be:
- Character values. A blank character terminates the field.
- Numeric values, which must occupy a fullword.
- Specify the record type as an argument name and the address of the previously retrieved common segment as the argument value address, if you have already retrieved the common segment of a record but you then want to delete the entire record. For a description of the record types that you can specify as argument names, see Records Using a Common Segment.
Note: The values of PIF arguments as dates depend on the PIF base year, which is defined by the
PIFCWB keyword on the INTFOPTS statement, or the CWBASE keyword
of the INIT statement. The value of the VALTO argument
for default high date depends on the PIFHD keyword of the INTFOPTS statement or the HIGHDATE
keyword of the INIT statement. .