ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide
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
OS/400:
- If a file is created on the local OS/400 server as a direct file by a
program or user from a non-OS/400 server, the file can be accessed as a direct
file by a ILE COBOL program from a remote non-OS/400 source server.
- If a file is created on the local OS/400 server by a program or user on
the same OS/400 server, it cannot be accessed as a direct file by a
non-iSeries system because the OS/400 target server cannot determine, in this
case, whether the file is a direct or sequential file.
- Any files created by a remote system can be used locally.
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