Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

FILEREAD

FILEREAD attempts to read z storage units (bytes) from file x into location y. It returns the number of storage units actually read.

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram>>-FILEREAD(x,y,z)---------------------------------------------><
 
x
File reference.
y
Expression with type POINTER or OFFSET. If the type is OFFSET, the expression must be an OFFSET variable declared with the AREA attribute.
z
Expression with computational type that is converted to FIXED BIN(31,0).

FILEREAD can read only TYPE(U) files.


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