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entity uses.
blocking-units This attribute is a 10-character field that describes the blocking factor units a file en-
tity uses. The valid values are 'RECORDS' or 'CHARACTERS'.
byte-length This attribute is a 4-byte binary field that describes the number of bytes you need to
store an entity.
byte-offset This attribute is a 4-byte binary field that describes the byte offset of a child record or
element within a parent record.
capacity This attribute is a 4-byte binary that field describes the capacity of an IMAGE data
set.
category-type This attribute is a 10-character field that contains the category type.
cctl-flag This attribute is a Boolean field that describes carriage control for a file entity. If true,
then the file has carriage control; if false, then no carriage control.
char-type This attribute is a 10-character field that describes the character set that a file uses.
The valid values are 'ASCII' or 'EBCDIC'.
class-number This attribute is a 4-byte binary field that contains the IMAGE security class number.
cobol-alias This alias attribute is a name field that contains aliases for COBOL source declara-
tion.
constant-type This attribute is a 2-character field that describes the type of a constant. The possible
values are:
U = upper case ASCII
X = upper or lower case ASCII
9 = numeric ASCII
Z = zoned decimal
P = packed decimal
I = integer binary
J = integer binary (COBOL)
K = logical
R = floating point (commercial)
E = floating point (E format)
B = Boolean
S = Pascal string
D = Basic Business decimal
count This attribute is a 4-byte binary field that specifies the number of elements in an ar-
ray.
date-created This attribute is a 16-character field that describes the date and time an entity or re-
lationship was created. The dictionary intrinsics always generates its value. The for-