ENVIRONMENT

Abbreviation: ENV

The ENVIRONMENT attribute and its options specify many record characteristics that are not part of the PL/I language. Its format is:

ENVIRONMENT(options–list)

options-list can contain any of a number options specifying record characteristics. For example,

ENVIRONMENT(VSAM KEYLOC(1) KEYLENGTH(12));

The ENVIRONMENT attribute is not supported for use with a STREAM file.