Hi, 

We have developed COPYBOOKs which adapt to the context according to the conditional compilation variables. 

Before referring to the COPYBOOK, we declare a number of variables that give this context. 

Today, you have to create as many lines containing a >>DEFINE directive as there are variables to manage: this weighs down the source code. 

We would like it to be possible to declare several variables with the same >>DEFINE directive. 

Example: 

cdS95C >>define AA-A-ACCES as 'L' 
cdS95C >>define AA-A-MODE  as 'S' 
cdS95C >>define AA-A-ORG   as '2' 
cdS95C >>define AA-A-NR    as -1 
cdS95C >>define AA-A-NS    as 0 
cdS95C     copy AAAPACCE 
cdS95C          replacing ==:DD:== by ==S9== 
cdS95C          ==:PREF:== by ==S95C== 
cdS95C          ==:NS:== by ==0== 
cdS95C          . 

would become: 

cdS95C >>define AA-A-ACCES as 'L', AA-A-MODE as 'S', AA-A-ORG as '2' 
cdS95C >>define AA-A-NR as -1, AA-A-NS as 0 
cdS95C     copy AAAPACCE 
cdS95C          replacing ==:DD:== by ==S9== 
cdS95C          ==:PREF:== by ==S95C== 
cdS95C          ==:NS:== by ==0== 
cdS95C          . 

And taking into account our ideas COBOLVUE-I-335 on the directive continuation, this would give: 

cdS95C >>define AA-A-ACCES as 'L', AA-A-MODE as 'S', AA-A-ORG as '2' 
cdS95C >>- AA-A-NR as -1, AA-A-NS as 0 
cdS95C     copy AAAPACCE 
cdS95C          replacing ==:DD:== by ==S9== 
cdS95C          ==:PREF:== by ==S95C== 
cdS95C          ==:NS:== by ==0== 
cdS95C          .