INQUIRE Statement Specifiers

The INQUIRE statement returns information on the status of specified properties of a file or logical unit. For more information, see INQUIRE.

The following table lists the INQUIRE statement specifiers and contains links to their descriptions:

ACCESS

DELIM

NEXTREC

RECL

ACTION

DIRECT

NUMBER

RECORDTYPE

ASYNCHRONOUS

ENCODING

OPENED

ROUND

BINARY

EXIST

ORGANIZATION

SEQUENTIAL

BLANK

FORM

PAD

SHARE

BLOCKSIZE

FORMATTED

PENDING

SIGN

BUFFERED

IOFOCUS

POS

SIZE

CARRIAGECONTROL

MODE

POSITION

UNFORMATTED

CONVERT

NAME

READ

WRITE

DECIMAL

NAMED

READWRITE

Parent topic: File Operation I/O Statements

See Also

UNIT control specifier
ERR control specifier
ID control specifier
IOMSG control specifier
IOSTAT control specifier
RECL specifier in OPEN statements
FILE specifier in OPEN statements
DEFAULTFILE specifier in OPEN statements

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