CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS, Version 1.2


Specifying the VSAM field type

The names of the fields shown in Figure 1 (VIDKEY, VIDF001, VIDF002, and so on) are generated by the automated mapping facility. The manual mapping facility generates field names with the prefix VIDM. VT requires that field names are unique within each file and are limited to a maximum of 8 characters.

Each field corresponds to a DB2® column. In manual mapping, you specify the field type that corresponds to the field attribute. For example, a zoned decimal field has a field type of C. The field types supported by CICS® T are character (C), signed packed decimal (P), unsigned packed decimal (U), hexadecimal (X), halfword (H), fullword (F), and two fullwords (B).

If a key or alternate index field is a group field that is converted to multiple columns, there are additional mapping considerations. These are described in the CICS VT User's Guide .



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