Access File for Data Access With GETPRV

An Access File is required. It provides the actual physical name of the private exit by specifying a MODNAME value. On platforms like UNIX, which use DLLs naming conventions such as libxxxx.so. The xxxx portion is the value to specify as the MODNAME. For example,

MODNAME=pgmname,$

To reference a table, you must specify the physical name of the Access File (for example, mytable.acx) and it must be located in an application directory on the server's application path. On MVS configurations using PDS for storing application files (where there are no file extensions), the Access File must be in the PDS allocated to the DDNAME ACCESS or be in a PDS for a given applications Access Files.


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