symbol-name Specifies a symbol consisting of 1 to 255 alphanumeric characters. prompt-string Specifies the prompt to be displayed at the terminal when the INQUIRE command is executed. String values are automatically converted to uppercase. Also, any leading and trailing spaces and tabs are removed, and multiple spaces and tabs between characters are compressed to a single space. Enclose the prompt in quotation marks (" ") if it contains lowercase characters, punctuation, multiple blanks or tabs, or an at sign (@). To denote an actual quotation mark in a prompt- string, enclose the entire string in quotation marks and use quotation marks (" ") within the string. When the system displays the prompt string at the terminal, it generally places a colon (:) and a space at the end of the string. (See the /PUNCTUATION qualifier.) If you do not specify a prompt string, the command interpreter uses the symbol name to prompt for a value.