CA JARS CMF Dictionary Record Layout

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CA JARS CMF Dictionary Record Layout

The following table describes the layout of the Dictionary entry. These records are produced from the CMFUTIL1 and CMFUTIL2 jobs as detailed on the previous page.

OFFSET	FIELD	LEN	DESCRIPTION
(REL TO 1)
000001	DCTSYS	CL4	SYSID THIS DICT ('ALL' FOR GLOBAL)
000006	DCTAPPL	CL8	APPLID THIS DICT ('ALL' FOR GLOBAL)
000015	DCTREL	CL3	RELEASE INDICATOR (212, 330 ETC)
000019	DCTCLASS	CL8	CLASS NAME (DFHTASK, DFHTERM ETC)
000028	DCTTYPE	CL1	DATA TYPE
000030	DCTIDENT	CL3	FLD ID (REMAINS SAME ACROSS REL'S)
000034	DCTLEN	CL4	LENGTH OF ENTRY
000041	DCTCON	CL4	CONNECTOR (CHANGES ACROSS REL'S) (HEX)
000047	DCTHDR	CL8	FIELD TITLE
000058	DCTOFFS	CL4	FIELD OFFSET (ZEROES FOR 2.1.2)
000066	DCTEXTOF	CL4	OFFSET INTO EXTDATA RECORD (HEX)

Example:

column
   ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
   ALL  ALL      212 DFHTERM  S 100 0008   0059  IRIOWTT    0000    01EA

This entry applies to all sysids, all applids, and release 2.1.2 of CICS. The class is DFHTERM, type is 'S', the field id (CMF) is 100, the length is 8, the connector is x'59', the field title is 'IRIOWTT', and the output offset in the EXTDATA record is x'1EA'.