Defining a view of a data object

To view all or part of a data object, you must provide window services with information about the object and how you want to view it. You must provide window services with the following information:

• The object identifier
• Where the window is in your address space
• Window disposition — that is, whether window services is to initialize the window the first time you reference data in the window
• Whether you intend to reference blocks of data sequentially or randomly
• The blocks of data that you want to view
• Whether you want to extend the size of the object

To define a view of a data object, call CSRVIEW or CSREVW. To determine which service you should use, see Defining the expected reference pattern. Specify BEGIN as the value for operation_type.