%DUMPFILE

With %DUMPFILE you assign a dump file to a link name and cause AID to open or close this file.

• With link you select the link name for the dump file to be opened or closed.

• With file you designate the dump file to be opened.

Command	Operand
[%DUMPFILE | %DF }	[link [=file]]

If you omit the file operand AID will close the file assigned to the specified link name.

With a %DUMPFILE command without operands, you cause AID to close all open dump files. If the AID work area was, up until this point, contained in a dump file now closed, the AID standard work area then reapplies (see also %BASE command).

%DUMPFILE may only be specified as an individual command, i.e. it may not be

part of a command sequence and may not be included in a subcommand.

%DUMPFILE does not alter the program state.

link

Designates one of the AID link names for input files and has the format Dn, where n is a number with a value 0 ≤ n ≤ 7.

file

Specifies the fully-qualified file name under which the dump file AID is to open is cataloged.If this operand is omitted, the dump file with the link name link is closed.
An open dump file must first be closed with a separate %DUMPFILE command before another file can be assigned the same link name.

Examples

1. %DUMPFILED3=DUMP.1234.00001
The file DUMP.1234.00001 with link name D3 is opened.
2. %DF D3
The file assigned to link name D3 is closed.
3. %DF
All open dump files are closed.