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Initial File Display

The Initial File Display screen has three distinct areas:

• The header area contains the following:
  • Type of data organization (DATATYPE)
  • Record or segment to be retrieved
  • Format in which the data is to be displayed (FORMAT)
• Record display area
• Record information area displays the information about the file or PCB information for a DL/I database and functions that can be performed, such as READ, BROWSE, and UPDATE etc against the FILE.

  Note: FILE uses different screens for accessing and displaying DB2 and SQL/DS databases. For more information, see 2 later in this chapter.