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58 IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS User’s Guide
den specifies the magnetic tape mode setting. The following table shows the values for the DEN
parameter for 7- and 9-track tapes. When coded together, the DEN and TRTCH values are used to
select a tape device for allocation by Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS.
dsorg specifies the file organization. Supported file organizations are BDAM, ISAM, PO, PS, and
VSAM.
keylen specifies the length of the keys used in a file. Maximum length in bytes is 255.
linct specifies the blocks or tracks searched to find a free block or available space.
lrecl specifies the record length in bytes.
optcd specifies optional processing associated with this file. This specification only applies to this file
and is not automatically applied to the other files involved in the RECEIVE operation.
Valid options are:
W performs write validity checks on direct access storage devices.
Q performs ASCII-to-EBCDIC conversion for input files and EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion for
output files. Q is the default and only used for AL-labeled tape files.
Z performs reduced error recovery for tape files.
recfm specifies the format of the records in the file. You can specify any valid record format, such as:
F specifies fixed format.
FA specifies fixed format with ASA printer control.
FB specifies fixed block format.
FBA specifies fixed block format with ANSI carriage control.
FM specifies fixed format with machine code control character.
U specifies undefined format.
V specifies variable format.
VB specifies variable block format.
VBA specifies variable block format with ASA printer control.
VBM specifies variable format with block machine code control character.
VS specifies variable spanned format.
VBS specifies variable block spanned format.
For FDR volumes, you must specify RECFM=U.
rkp specifies the position of the first byte of the record key within each logical record. The beginning
byte of a record is addressed as 0.
DEN 7-Track Tape 9-Track Tape
1 556 bpi --
2 800 bpi 800 bpi
3 -- 1600 bpi
4 -- 6250 bpi