INQUIRE Statement

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

The following are inquiry specifiers:

• ACCESS
• ACTION
• BINARY
• BLANK
• BLOCKSIZE
• BUFFERED
• CARRIAGECONTROL
• CONVERT
• DELIM
• DIRECT
• EXIST
• FORM
• FORMATTED
• IOFOCUS
• MODE
• NAME
• NAMED
• NEXTREC
• NUMBER
• OPENED
• ORGANIZATION
• PAD
• POSITION
• READ
• READWRITE
• RECL
• RECORDTYPE
• SEQUENTIAL
• SHARE
• UNFORMATTED
• WRITE

For More Information:

• See the UNIT control specifier.
• See the ERR control specifier.
• See the IOSTAT control specifier.
• See the RECL specifier in OPEN statements.
• See the FILE specifier in OPEN statements.
• See the DEFAULTFILE specifier in OPEN statements.