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EDITDEF Record

Use the EDITDEF Record to define additional fields in the TMC. This Record is optional; however, if no EDITDEF Record is specified, no default is supplied.

The EDITDEF Record accepts site-defined field types and can also be used to create synonyms for the current TMC field names. Normally, EDITDEF is used to subdivide the TMC user accounting area because CA VM:Tape does not use this field.

Format 1 is the preferred method of defining fields. Use Format 1 of the EDITDEF Record to specify site-defined fields by specifying offsets into the ACCT field, relative to the beginning of the ACCT field.

Important! Format 2 defines a field using an absolute offset into the TMC. CA recommends using Format 1 instead of Format 2 because if the TMC layout changes in the future, the EDITDEF offsets will still be correct.

The size of the ACCT field for a TMC is 50 bytes long, with a displacement of 266.