Your guess is correct.  "Copybook" is the way most Assembler programmers for 
DOS/360 or VSE systems pronounce "DSECT". 
Bill Fairchild 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:53:29 AM 
Subject: Re: IBM assembler copybook 

In <[email protected]>, on 
02/23/2014 
   at 11:23 AM, Ron Thomas <[email protected]> said: 

>Hello. I am new to assembler so not sure whether i am asking the 
>right query? We have a assembler copybook and the corresponding file 
>is a VSAM KSDS. 

I'm not sure what you mean by a copybook. My best guess is that you 
mean a member in SYSLIB that contains a DSECT mapping the records in 
the file, rather than an ACB for the file. 
  

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