CASE segment type format

The IMS catalog CASE segment type contains information about a specific case for a mapping of an IMS database segment.

Segment name
CASE
Parent name
MAP
Sequence field
CASESEQ
Segment length
656 bytes
Table 1. CASE segment type format
Offset (bytes) Length (bytes) Data type Field name Description Unique key field
1 2 X LEN Length of this segment  
3 2 X CTL Control field  
5 2 X CASESEQ Sequence field, type = U X
  5 2 X SEQNUM Sequence number  
7 2 C FILLER Reserved  
9 1 C CASETYPE The encoding type of the CASEID field. This field specifies either C for Cp1047 EBCDIC encoding or X for a hexadecimal binary representation.  
10 7 C FILLER01 Reserved  
17 128 C CASENAME The name of this case  
145 128 C FILLER02 Reserved  
273 128 C MAPNAME Name of the segment type mapping that this case belongs to  
401 256 C CASEID The unique identifier for this case. Interpret this field based on the value of the CASETYPE field.