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.