To open an iSeries tape file as a binary stream file for record-at-a-time processing, use the fopen() function with one of the following modes:
The valid keyword parameters are:
If your program processes tape files, performance can be improved if records are blocked.
If you specify 0 on either BLKLEN or blksize the system calculates a block size for you. You can specify a value on either parameter of between 0 and 32 767 characters.
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