DDM Direct (Relative) File Support

An OS/400 server does not support direct files as one of its file types. (An OS/400 server creates direct files as sequential files.) However, an ILE COBOL program on an OS/400 server can specify that a file be accessed as a direct file by specifying an organization of RELATIVE on the SELECT statement.

Keep the following in mind when working with direct files on the iSeries: