/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.