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LOCATE
Purpose
For locate mode processing. Use the LOCATE statement only with an OUTPUT SEQUENTIAL BUFFERED file to allocate storage within an output buffer for a based variable and to set a pointer to the location of the next record.
Syntax
LOCATE based-var
FILE (file-ref)
SET (pointer-ref)
KEYFROM (expression)Parameter
- based-var
- A level-1, unsubscripted based variable.