CHARBANG – Set the exclamation mark (!) for default variable prefix

Within Workload Automation Programming Language, the exclamation mark (!) is used as the default variable prefix.

However, with some code pages the exclamation mark (!) character might be displayed differently. The CHARBANG keyword enables you to determine what character is actually in use for your code page by issuing a SHOW OPTIONS command.

You can also set the character to be used, so that it matches the documented character for the code page, for example OPTIONS CHARAT(!)

The characters you can use for these options cannot be standard upper or lower case alphabetic characters, numbers, minus signs (-) or periods (.). They must not be in conflict with any other CHARxxxx keywords or VARNAMES keyword.
Note: These OPTIONS keywords change only these character for the uses specified. When the same characters are used as part of data in your system, or part of field names in OUTPUT statements or object variables, the characters are displayed according to your code page.