Record Layouts › Ordinary Layouts

Ordinary Layouts

An ordinary layout is a COBOL or PL/I record definition, the kind you would define in a copy member to be compiled with your COBOL or PL/I application program. An ordinary layout can be a member of a PDS, a CA Librarian data set, or a CA Panvalet data set. Use an ordinary record layout wherever CA File Master Plus supports the use of record layouts to map your record data, including the following activities:

• Browsing or editing a file using single-record or multi-record formatted display mode
• Printing data from any online or batch function
• Reformatting file data using the Reformat (Option 3.11) function
• Generating record selection criteria using the Filter (Option 5) function
• Using dynamic selection criteria for use with any online or batch function
• Defining a custom record layout using the Layout (Option 6) function

Ordinary layouts cannot contain procedural statements or other program source statements. To map file data using a record layout embedded in a multi-layout copy member or source program, you must define a custom layout.