Collapsing the level 88 items can be used to suppress, potentially many and not very useful
declarations, from the display. By placing the cursor on the minus sign immediately ahead of the
"Collapse level 88" heading in Sample Associated Storage Areas display and pressing Enter,
the display is changed to that shown in Sample Associated Storage Areas display with level 88 items collapsed:
Figure 1. Sample Associated Storage Areas display with level 88 items collapsed
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JOBNAME: COBLVL88 SYSTEM ABEND: 0CB FAE1 2021/09/20 15:48:38
Program Prolog Areas
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION
+ Expand hex + Expand level 88
OffsetData Value Source (Starting at Line #000010)
STATIC storage at address 0000B3F0
A8 *WORKING-STORAGE * 01 FILLER PIC X(20) VALUE 'WORK
B8 * *
Suppressed Copybook
390 *.... * 01 FIELD-1 PIC 999999 COMP-3.
398 0 01 FIELD-2 PIC 999999 COMP-4.
3A0 *...... * 01 FIELD-3 PIC 999999.
01 TABLE-4.
03 TABLE-8 OCCURS 6 TIMES.
04 TABLE-8A OCCURS 3 TIMES.
3A8 1.111100e+02 05 ELEMENT-1 COMP
3AC *.... * 05 ELEMENT-2 OCCURS 4 TIMES PIC
Level 88 Items
ELEMENT-2(1,1,2) to ELEMENT-2(1,1,4) sam
3BC *.... * 05 ELEMENT-3 PIC 999999 CO
3C0 0 05 ELEMENT-4 PIC 999999 CO
Note that the minus sign point-and-shoot field, now immediately ahead of the "Expand level
88" heading, has changed to a plus sign, and that if placing the cursor on this point-and-shoot
field, the display changes back to the first display with level 88 items inlined.
Placing the cursor on the "Level 88 Items" point-and-shoot field, and pressing Enter, results in
the display shown in Sample level 88 items display. Figure 2. Sample level 88 items display
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88 JACK VALUE 'JACK'.
88 JILL VALUE 'JILL'.
*** Bottom of data.
Press PF3 to return to the associated storage areas display.
The last selected "Collapse/Expand level 88" option is saved in
the user's ISPF profile and is used as the default display mode on
subsequent Associated Storage Areas displays.