IO-PCB Mask

The following shows the IO-PCB Mask fields provided by IBM mainframe’s IMS/DC. It includes the field lengths and support status in the OSI product.

Descriptor Length (Bytes) Support

Logical terminal name

8

Supported

Reserved for IMS

2

Supported

Status code

2

Supported

Local date and time

4 (Date) + 4 (Time)

Supported

Input message sequence number

4

Not Supported

Message output descriptor name

8

Supported

Userid

8

Supported

Group name

8

Not Supported

Time Stamp

4 (Date) + 6 (Time6) + 2 (UTC Offset)

Not Supported

Userid Indicator

1

Not Supported

Reserved for IMS

3

Supported