copied.
suppresses the display of the names of the files being
copied.
uses the current date as the creation date of the new
file(s)
output file. In the case of multiple input files and a
single output file, the date of the 'first' input file
processed is used as the date for the new output file.
checks that files with the same fileid as the output file
do not already exist. If one or more output files do
exist, an error message is
existing files are not inadvertently destroyed.
causes the output file to replace an existing file with
the same file identifier. REPLACE is the default option
when only one fileid is entered or when the output fileid
is specified as "= = =."
displays the messages that request specification or
translation lists.
suppresses the display of prompting messages
specification and translation lists.
for
xxxxxxxx is a character string that appears at
beginning of the first record to be copied from
input file.
specified.
the
each
be
file.
of a record, stops the copy operation for that input
file. The record containing the given character is not
copied.
indicates that you are going to enter a specification
list to define how records should be copied.
on how you can define output records in a specification
list.
indicates that no specification list is to be entered.
overlays the data in an existing output file
from the input file.
option to overlay data in particular columns.
with data
the