This DEFINE statement and its attributes create the column definition num_var. GENERIC= specifies that multiple variables can use the same column definition. HEADER= specifies that the header for the column will be the text of the dynamic variable COLHD, whose value will be set by the data component.

The STYLE= attribute specifies that the style element for this column definition is cellcontents.

The END statement ends the definition.

   define column num_var;
      generic=on;
      header=colhd;
      style=cellcontents;
   end;