Your guess is correct. "Copybook" is the way most Assembler programmers for DOS/360 or VSE systems pronounce "DSECT". Bill Fairchild
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:53:29 AM Subject: Re: IBM assembler copybook In <4528858360446052.wa.ron5174gmail....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 02/23/2014 at 11:23 AM, Ron Thomas <ron5...@gmail.com> said: >Hello. I am new to assembler so not sure whether i am asking the >right query? We have a assembler copybook and the corresponding file >is a VSAM KSDS. I'm not sure what you mean by a copybook. My best guess is that you mean a member in SYSLIB that contains a DSECT mapping the records in the file, rather than an ACB for the file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN