Requirements and Options for Host Languages › Using SQL in a COBOL Application Program › COPY IDMS FILE Statement › Parameters

Parameters

file-name

Copies the description of a non-CA IDMS file into the DATA DIVISION. File-name is either the primary name or a synonym for a file defined in the dictionary.

VERSION version-number

Qualifies file-name with a version number. Version-number must be an integer in the range 1 through 9999 and defaults to the highest version number defined in the dictionary for file-name.