An understanding of the following concepts is helpful in your use of DUMPALL.
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You can run DUMPALL in either of the following two modes:
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Parameter mode
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Interactive mode
The mode you choose affects the way you enter the commands that you want DUMPALL to execute.
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DUMPALL prints or copies a file by reading records sequentially from the input file and writing them sequentially to the output file. To use DUMPALL, it is important that you understand what a record is.
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To read and write records, DUMPALL needs to know the organization of the file, the structure of the file, the size of the data records in the file, and the size of the blocks of records in the file. DUMPALL determines this information from the file attributes of each file and from any file attributes that you specify in the command.
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In some cases, DUMPALL translates the data in records from one character set, such as EBCDIC, to another, such as ASCII. The specifications in the commands that you use control the kind of data translations, if any, that DUMPALL performs.
