The ISPF display for special files only says "Char", which doesn't tell you 
enough. 

To see what it really is, you need to do "ls -al: command:
On my z/OS V2R4 system:

> ls -al /var/CEAServer
srwxrwxrwx   1 OMVSKERN OMVSGRP        0 Mar 21 13:47 /var/CEAServer

The "s" means that this is a Unix-domain socket file.   These are created by a 
program that does a "bind()" in AF_UNIX.  I don't think that you can copy or 
create these otherwise.

I'm not sure what this is for, but if you want to move it from /var, I would 
look at some CEA documentation to see if the location is configurable. 

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, at 3:59 PM, Shelia Chalk wrote:
> I have a Unix Char file in /var.  I would like to copy it over to another 
> /var directory with all the same attributes.  Can someone help me out?
> 
> _ Char   777   rwxrwxrwx  2022-03-24 06:26  BPXROOT  0 CEAServer
> 
> Thanks
> 
> SC
> 
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