A record-address file is a sequentially organized file used to select records from another file. Only one file in a program can be specified as a record-address file. This file is described on the file description specification and not on the input specifications. A record-address file must be program-described; however, a record-address file can be used to process a program described file or an externally described file.
The file processed by the record-address file must be a primary, secondary, or full-procedural file, and must also be specified as the parameter to the RAFDATA keyword on the file description specification of the record-address file.
You cannot specify a record-address file for the device SPECIAL.
UCS-2 fields are not allowed as the record address type for record address files.
A record-address file that contains relative-record numbers must also have a T specified in position 35 and an F in position 22.