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type is FILE or KSAMFILE. If so, following mapping will be used:

6 The value of this field is ignored, unless the destination entity type is FILE. If it is FILE, the fol-

lowing mapping is used:

7 The value of this field is ignored, unless the destination entity type is FILE. If it is FILE, the fol-

lowing mapping is used:

8 The FILE-REC-SIZE field has two sub-items. The first sub-item will be mapped to the min-record-

size attribute in the System Dictionary. It is zero if the file has fixed or spanned record format. The

secondsub-itemis mapped to themax-record-size attribute. The mapping justdescribed will occur,

only if the destination entity type is FILE or KSAMFILE. Otherwise, this field is ignored.

9 FILE-BK-FACTOR has three sub-items; the first one is mapped to the blocking-units attribute in

the System Dictionary; 0 is mapped to RECORDS and 1 to CHARACTERS. The second sub-item

is mapped to the blocking-min attribute. The third sub-item is mapped to the blocking-max at-

tribute. The mapping just described will occur, only if the destination entity type is FILE or KSAM-

FILE. Otherwise, this field is ignored.

10 If the destination entity type is FILE, FILE-DEVICE field in Dictionary/V is used as the DEVICE-

CLASS name in the FILE uses DEVICE-CLASS relationship. Otherwise, this field is ignored. If

the DEVICE-CLASS does not exist in System Dictionary, it will be created. Then, the FILE uses

DEVICE-CLASS relationship is created with the cctl-flag attribute initialized as shown in 12.

11 If thedestinationentity ty peis FILE, FILE-DEV-CLASS ismapped to the file-dev-classattribute.

Otherwise, this field is ignored. For FILEs, the value of FILE-DEV-CLASS is mapped to the file-

dev-class attribute according to the following table:

FILE-REC-FORMAT record-format

0 FIXED

1 VARIABLE

2 UNDEFINED

4 SPANNED

FILE-DATA-TYPE char-type

0 ASCII

1 EBCDIC

FILE-REC-MODE recording-mode

0 ASCII

1 BINARY

FILE-DEV-CLASS ﬁle-dev-class meaning

0 A Mass storage device

1 R Unit record device (e.g. card reader)