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FILEDATA

This parameter indicates how a remote USS file is allocated.

B

Binary

T

Text

R

Record

If you do not specify a value for FILEDATA, then the allocation is determined based on the CODE= specification and by the value of the Data Encoding (CODE) and Extended Variable Length Record (VLR) fields:

• If CODE=BINARY, then the file is allocated and processed as binary data.
• If CODE=UTF8 or CODE=UTF16, then the file is allocated and processed as record data.
• If CODE=EBCDIC, the type of allocation and processing depends on the value of FILEDATA, as follows:
  • If you do not specify FILEDATA=B, the file is allocated as a text file. The file is also processed as an EBCDIC text file.
  • If you do specify FILEDATA=B, then the file is allocated as a binary file. The file is also processed as an EBCDIC file.
  • If you do specify FILEDATA=R, then the file is allocated as a text file with record format. The file is also processed as an EBCDIC text file.

Important! If you do specify FILEDATA=B, then specify a value for LRECL. The value tells CA XCOM Data Transport how many bytes there are in each logical record.