This rule raises an issue whenever an IMPORT UNFORMATTED statement references more than one field.

The UNFORMATTED phrase of the IMPORT statement implies that all data on the input line should be read into the first field in the IMPORT statement without regard to delimiters in the data. Your code has multiple fields listed in the IMPORT statement; subsequent fields will not be used in the IMPORT statement at runtime.

Noncompliant Code Example

DEFINE VARIABLE x1 AS CHARACTER   NO-UNDO.
DEFINE VARIABLE x2 AS CHARACTER   NO-UNDO.

IMPORT UNFORMATTED x1 x2. // x2 will always be empty

Compliant Solution

DEFINE VARIABLE x1 AS CHARACTER   NO-UNDO.
DEFINE VARIABLE x2 AS CHARACTER   NO-UNDO.

IMPORT UNFORMATTED x1.