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- Description
- The ACQUIRE statement acquires a program device for a TRANSACTION
file. Successful completion of the ACQUIRE operation makes the program
device available for input and output operations. If the ACQUIRE is
unsuccessful, the file status is set to 9H and any applicable USE AFTER
EXCEPTION/ERROR procedure is invoked.
Format-TRANSACTION
->->---ACQUIRE--*-identifier-*--FOR--file-name---------------><-
*-literal----*
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