Rational Developer for System z
COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


File system

Record-oriented files that are organized as sequential, relative, or indexed are accessed through a file system. You can use file-system functions to create and manipulate the records in any of these types of files.

COBOL for Windows supports the following file systems:

Most programs will have the same behaviors on all file systems. However, files written using one file system cannot be read using a different file system.

You can select a file system by setting the assignment-name environment variable or by using the FILESYS runtime option. All the file systems let you use COBOL statements to read and write COBOL files.

related tasks
Identifying files

related references
STL file system
RSD file system
zSeries host data format considerations (File data)
FILESYS


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