This section contains General-use Programming Interface and Associated Guidance Information.
You can use the EXEC CICS® SET FILE command to change the definition of an existing file, and the EXEC CICS INQUIRE FILE command to check the definition of an existing file. For programming information, including details of how to use these commands and the parameters described here, see CICS System Programming Reference. The parameters that are relevant to data tables are described below.
The following parameters are relevant to data tables; you can use them only when the file is closed and disabled. You can specify a data table attribute of a file in a CICS-value data area (cvda):
specify a cvda value of USERTABLE to define the file as a user-maintained data table.
specify a cvda value of NOTTABLE to indicate that the file is not a data table.
The following parameters are relevant to data tables. You can request that each data table attribute of a file is returned in a CICS-value data area (cvda) by specifying:
If the value USERTABLE is returned, the file has been defined as a user-maintained data table.
If the value CFTABLE is returned, the file has been defined as a coupling facility data table.
If the value NOTTABLE is returned, the file is not currently defined as a data table.
If the value NOTAPPLIC is returned, the option is not applicable because the file is a remote file.