File control

Function shipping allows you to access files located on a remote system.

If you use the SYSID option to access a remote system directly, you must observe the following two rules:
  1. For a file referencing a keyed data set, KEYLENGTH must be specified if RIDFLD is specified, unless you are using relative byte addresses (RBA) or relative record numbers (RRN).

    For a remote BDAM file, where the DEBKEY or DEBREC options have been specified, KEYLENGTH must be the total length of the key.

  2. If the file has fixed-length records, you must specify the record length (LENGTH).

These rules also apply if the definition of the file to this CICS® does not specify the appropriate values.