OI – Operator Instruction record

The OI record is a multi segment record, with the following structure.

OICOM -+- Common segment (1 per OI)
       |
       += OIT = Line of text (many per OI)
Note:
  1. Some segments have Batch Loader statements with slightly different names. OICOM has a Batch Loader statement of OISTART.
  2. The Workload Automation Programming Language interpretation of the OI record is slightly different from the PIF specification in which interval dates are store in the field OIT within the Common Segment. Within Workload Automation Programming Language, the Common Segment includes OIT as an unresolved field, if requested in an OUTPUT statement, but will also decode the OIT into separate OIT segments for each line of text. This makes for more flexible processing in Batch Loader.
  3. DBMODE(UPDATE) cannot be used to update individual lines of text.