PASSRCD (Passed Record) keyword for display files

You use this file-level keyword to specify the record format to be used by the IBM® i operating system when another program passes unformatted data to your program.

The passed data is processed only if your program's first request after file open is an input operation without a record format name. The data must be processed according to this record format.

The format of the keyword is:

PASSRCD(record-format-name)

The record-format-name is a required parameter value for this keyword and must exist in the file. The following keywords cannot be specified on the record format:

ALWROL
CLRL
SLNO

Option indicators are not valid for this keyword.

Example

The following example shows how to specify the PASSRCD keyword.

|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A                                      PASSRCD(RECKEEP)
00020A          R RECORD
     A