/ACTION (D)
/NOACTION
Controls whether MMS executes the action lines in a description
file. These qualifiers affect only the execution of action lines,
not the behavior of MMS.
The /ACTION qualifier displays action lines as they are invoked.
MMS does not display any information on dependencies.
If you specify /NOACTION, MMS does not execute the action lines,
but instead writes them to an output file (either SYS$OUTPUT
or the file specified by the /OUTPUT qualifier). /NOACTION is
useful for determining what actions MMS would have executed had
the system actually been built. You can also use /NOACTION in
combination with the /OUTPUT qualifier to generate a command
procedure (see the description of the /OUTPUT qualifier).
/NOACTION overrides the Silent action-line prefix - @. Note that
the $(MMS) reserved macro is executed even if you specify
/NOACTION. Therefore, you can see what actions MMS would have
executed in the subprocess.
/NOACTION does not affect the /AUDIT qualifier that you can
provide with references to CDD records. That is, if you suppress
the execution of action lines with the /NOACTION qualifier,
the remark you supply with /AUDIT is still written to the CDD
history file.