DEFIL - create temporary file.
Usage:
call defil(name, links, mode, istat)
Where:
- name
- is a character expression containing the name of the
temporary file to be created.
- links
- is an integer expression that specifies the size of the
file to be created (in links).
- mode
- if is an integer expression indicating the type of file.
Zero for sequential, non-zero for random.
- istat
- is an integer variable where the status is returned.
- 0
- successful
- 3
- AFT full
- 4
- system temp space exhausted
- 5
- duplicate file name
- 6
- system PAT space exhausted.
Description:
DEFIL allows a TSS program to create a temporary file.
Usually, a temporary file can be created with the SCRATCH
option of the OPEN statement. The use of OPEN is preferable since
it will work in batch also.
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