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Physical File

Questions on above session:


 Using the command CRTLIB, create a Library TEST suffixed by your user name.
 Check whether your library has been created using following commands:
WRKLIB or DSPLIB. Add the created library to the library list using commands
ADDLIBLE or EDTLIBL
 Check your current library using DSPLIB and DSPLIBL.
 Display libraries of all the users using command DSPLIB with *ALL as the value for the
parameter LIB.
 Using the command CHGCURLIB change your current library to library which you have
created and check whether it has been changed by using the command DSPLIBL.
 Try WRKSPLF and WRKUSRJOB commands.
 Print all the libraries in your library list to a spooled file using the command DSPLIBL
OUTPUT (*PRINT) and view the spool file.
 Display all the commands starting with ‘CRT’ by using the command SLTCMD CMD (CRT*).
 Using the command DLTLIB, delete the library, which you have created above.

Questions:

Q1. What is an externally defined file? What two types are supported on the AS/400?
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Q2 . Explain how any field included in the file in an ascending or descending order may process a
physical file. “Sorting” is not an acceptable answer.
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Q3. Name the steps followed for building a physical file.


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Q4. How many record formats may be included in a physical file?


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Q5. What is the function of the following physical file keywords?


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COLHDG EDTWRD REFLD


DESCEND LIFO TEXT
EDTCDE REF UNIQUE

Q6 What CL command is used to display he attributes of a physical file? Name the CL command needed
to display the field attributes of a physical file.
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Q7 Explain the function of he following physical file maintenance commands:


CHGPF CLRPFMCPYF
DSPPFM RMVM DLTF

Q8 How many default members are assigned when a physical file is created without changing any
parameters? How is a file created to support more than one member?

S S R Chowdary
Physical File

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Q9. By what methods may data be loaded to a physical file?


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S S R Chowdary

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