Change Logical File Member (CHGLFM)
Where allowed to run: All environments (*ALL)
Threadsafe: NoParameters
Examples
Error messagesThe Change Logical File Member (CHGLFM) command changes the attributes of a logical file member.
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Parameters
Keyword Description Choices Notes FILE Logical file Qualified object name Required, Key, Positional 1 Qualifier 1: Logical file Name Qualifier 2: Library Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB MBR Logical file member Name, *FIRST Required, Key, Positional 2 SHARE Share open data path *SAME, *YES, *NO Optional TEXT Text 'description' Character value, *SAME, *BLANK Optional
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Logical file (FILE)
Specifies the logical file that contains the member to be changed.
This is a required parameter.
Qualifier 1: Logical file
- name
- Specify the name of the logical file.
Qualifier 2: Library
- *LIBL
- All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched until the first match is found.
- *CURLIB
- The current library for the job is used to locate the file. If no library is specified as the current library, QGPL is used.
- name
- Specify the name of the library to be searched.
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Logical file member (MBR)
Specifies the name of the member to be changed.
- *FIRST
- The first member of the specified file is used.
- name
- Specify the name of the logical file member to be changed.
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Share open data path (SHARE)
Specifies whether the open data path (ODP) is shared with other programs in the same routing step. When an ODP is shared, the programs accessing the file share facilities such as the file status and the buffer.
- *SAME
- The member's ODP sharing value does not change.
- *NO
- The ODP is not shared with other programs in the routing step. A new ODP for the file is created and used every time a program opens the file.
- *YES
- The same ODP is shared with each program in the job that also specifies *YES when it opens the file.
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Text 'description' (TEXT)
Specifies the text that briefly describes the object.
- *SAME
- The text that describes the member does not change.
- *BLANK
- No text is specified.
- character-value
- Specify no more than 50 characters of text, enclosed in apostrophes.
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Examples
CHGLFM FILE(*CURLIB/INV) MBR(FEB) TEXT('Logical file member for FEB')The command changes the text for the member named FEB in the logical file INV that is found in the specified current library.
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Error messages
*ESCAPE Messages
- CPF3288
- Member &3 file &1 in &2 not changed.
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