ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide

Input Spooling

Input spooling is valid only for inline data files in batch jobs. If the input data read by ILE COBOL comes from a spooled file, ILE COBOL is not aware of which device the data was spooled in from.

The data is read from a spooled inline file:



illustration of spooled files

For more information on inline data files, refer to the Database and File Systems category in the iSeries 400 Information Center at this Web site -http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/infocenter.htm.


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