A macro is a name that represents a character string. You can define a macro at the beginning of the description file or on the MMS command line and then use its name anywhere in the description file in place of the equivalent string. A macro must be defined before you use it. Format: name = string The name identifies the macro, and the string is the text that replaces the name when the macro is expanded. A macro definition must begin in column 1 of the line. To invoke a macro, type: $(name) You can define a macro on the command line with the /MACRO qualifier; you can also use a CLI symbol as a macro. If a macro is not defined in the description file, MMS looks in its environment for macro definitions. To find them, it looks at symbols defined by the CLI assignment statement, scanning the CLI symbol table for the body of the macro. If the body of the macro is not in the CLI symbol table, MMS substitutes a null string for all invocations of the macro. MMS supplies some default, or "built-in," macro definitions and some "special" macros for use in action lines.