This statement invokes a program that is external to Rational Statemate. The Documentor searches for the program name using the regular system search path. The tool then invokes the program and sends its standard output to the document’s segment file.
The calling_sequence is a string expression containing the name of a program and any arguments. This is exactly the calling sequence used to invoke the program from the operating system.
The calling sequence can be a literal string in quotes or an expression that evaluates to a string.
calls the operating system function DATE and prints the date in the output file.
The EXECUTE statement function operates as a function that returns either stm_success or stm_error.