Developer Guide and Reference

ID 767251
Date 10/31/2024
Public
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Language Extensions: File Operation Statements

The following statement specifiers and statements are extensions:

  • CLOSE statement specifiers:

    • STATUS values: 'SAVE' (as a synonym for 'KEEP'), 'PRINT', 'PRINT/DELETE', 'SUBMIT', 'SUBMIT/DELETE'

    • DISPOSE (or DISP)

  • DELETE statement

  • INQUIRE statement specifiers:

    • BINARY (Windows)

    • BLOCKSIZE

    • BUFFERED

    • CARRIAGECONTROL

    • CONVERT

    • DEFAULTFILE

    • FORM values: 'UNKNOWN', 'BINARY' (Windows)

    • IOFOCUS (Windows)

    • MODE as a synonym for ACTION

    • ORGANIZATION

    • RECORDTYPE

    • SHARE (Windows)

    See also INQUIRE Statement.

  • OPEN statement specifiers:

    • ACCESS values: 'APPEND'

    • ASSOCIATEVARIABLE

    • BLOCKSIZE

    • BUFFERCOUNT

    • BUFFERED

    • CARRIAGECONTROL

    • CONVERT

    • DEFAULTFILE

    • DISPOSE (or DISP)

    • FORM value: 'BINARY' (Windows)

    • IOFOCUS (Windows)

    • MAXREC

    • MODE as a synonym for ACTION

    • NAME as a synonym for FILE

    • NOSHARED

    • ORGANIZATION

    • READONLY

    • RECORDSIZE as a synonym for RECL

    • RECORDTYPE

    • SHARE (Windows)

    • SHARED

    • TITLE (Windows)

    • TYPE as a synonym for STATUS

    • USEROPEN

    See also OPEN Statement.