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The RC of STEP01 is FLUSH.
In the following condition:

//IF STEP01.RC = 0 THEN
//:
//:

How this condition will be executed ? What will be the value of STEP01.RC in the above condition when compared against 0 during the execution?

Have you tried it yourself ?

yes, I have tried it and is working perfectly. The condition fails and the step STEP03 in the else part is getting executed.
But I'm curious to know the RC value of the FLUSHed step STEP01.

STEP01 RC=FLUSH.
//IF STEP01.RC = 0 THEN
//STEP02
//:
//ELSE
//STEP03
//:
//:
//ENDIF

Please reply the value of the RC of the step STEP01. I'll put this way: How FLUSH is represented in numeric format (0, -1, 1, something like this) ?

The flushed step does not issue a return code, and you are checking for a specific return code of 0, and nothing is not equal to 0 so the ELSE segment executes