The following table illustrates the metafile fields and their column positions. The records for each file must be grouped together, but the files can be described in any order.

This example describes two files; the control file and the dimension file.

The file names are CONTROL and DIMFILE.

The file properties are NAME_OF_FILE and TYPE_OF_FILE.

The values for NAME_OF_FILE are FILES\CNTLFILE.TXT and FILES\DIMFILE.TXT.

The values for TYPE_OF_FILE are CONTROL and DIMENSION.

This information in the metafile tells the load manager that the control file is CNTLFILE.TXT in the inbound folder, and the dimension file is DIMFILE.TXT in the inbound folder.