The ACCESS keyword specifies whether a file is opened for
keyed, direct, or sequential access.
It takes the following form:
ACCESS = acc
- acc
- Is a character expression having one of the following values:
- 'DIRECT': Access by record number
- 'SEQUENTIAL': Access sequentially
- 'KEYED': Access by a specified key
- 'APPEND': Access sequentially, after the last
record of the file
The default is 'SEQUENTIAL'.
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