DALFDAT specifies the organization of a z/OS® UNIX file.
You can code DALFDAT only when you also code the pathname (DALPATH)
key.
When you code DALFDAT, # and LEN must be 1, and PARM contains one
of the following values:
- X'80'— - the file organization is binary records not
delimited
- X'40'— - the file organization is text records are EBCDIC
delimited by newline characters (x'15')
- X'20'— - the file organization is data records with a
prefix indicating the length of the following record.
Note:
The
record prefix for FILEDATA=RECORD is mapped by the IGGRPFX macro.
This is different from the record descriptor word (RDW) that is in z/OS physical sequential format-V
data sets.
Example: To specify that a file has records delimited by
newline characters, code:
KEY # LEN PARM
801D 0001 0001 40