# INQUIRE Statement Specifiers

The INQUIRE statement returns information on the status of specified properties of a file or logical unit. For more information, see INQUIRE.

The following table lists the INQUIRE statement specifiers and contains links to their descriptions:

ACCESS | DELIM | NEXTREC | RECL
ACTION | DIRECT | NUMBER | RECORDTYPE
ASYNCHRONOUS | ENCODING | OPENED | ROUND
BINARY | EXIST | ORGANIZATION | SEQUENTIAL
BLANK | FORM | PAD | SHARE
BLOCKSIZE | FORMATTED | PENDING | SIGN
BUFFERED | IOFOCUS | POS | SIZE
CARRIAGECONTROL | MODE | POSITION | UNFORMATTED
CONVERT | NAME | READ | WRITE
DECIMAL | NAMED | READWRITE |

## See Also

UNIT control specifier
ERR control specifier
ID control specifier
IOMSG control specifier
IOSTAT control specifier
RECL specifier in OPEN statements
FILE specifier in OPEN statements
DEFAULTFILE specifier in OPEN statements