Event Management Service (EMS) Analyzer Manual

Command Descriptions
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ASSIGN
ASSIGN
The ASSIGN command changes, adds, and displays ASSIGN messages passed to a
process initiated by the EMS Analyzer RUN command.
logical-unit
name to which a file name or file attributes are assigned. The logical-unit
requires one of the following:
*.logical-file program-unit.logical-file logical-file
Both program-unit and logical-file consist of 1 to 31 alphanumeric
characters, including hyphen (-) and circumflex (^).
Exact meanings of the asterisk (*), program-unit, and logical-file
depend on the application. In general, the following is true:
The asterisk (*) applies the assignment to all program units in the object
program file running.
program-unit
name, as designated in the source program, that the file name assignment applies
to.
logical-file
name of the file as designated in the source program.
actual-file-name
name of a physical file. A partial file name is not expanded.
create-open-spec
file creation or file open specification that assigns values to certain file attributes.
The attribute specifications are separated by commas (,). The applicable attribute
specifications for create-open-spec are the following:
extent-spec exclusion-spec access-spec CODE file-code REC
record-size BLOCK block-size
extent-spec
size of the file extents allocated to the file.
EXT [(] pri-extent-size [)] EXT ( [ pri-extent-size ] ,
sec-extent-size )
ASSIGN [ logical-unit [, actual-file-name ]
[, create-open-spec ] ]