The default is to uppercase the file name and file type when the file does not exist as specified. ESM Provide a character string for an external security manager. The character string can be up to eighty characters and it may contain blanks. CMS will not update the date of last reference for the file. Specify the work unit to be used.
Further arguments are ranges of records to be read.
Use an asterisk as the end of a range to read to the end of the file. This reads your profile from your root directory in the current filepool. It is unspecified how many additional read operations it per- forms for records specified in the arguments or a particular input record. Ensure that no stage delays the record between stages reading and writing a file being updated.