RECFORMAT

Synopsis

HELP:   Record format of FLAMFILE [FIX]
TYPE:   NUMBER
SYNTAX: RECFORMAT/RECFORM/RECFMT/RECFM/RECF=FIX/F/VAR/V/TEXT/STREAM/UNDEFINED/UNDEF/U/FIXBLK/FB/FIXS/FBS/VARBLK/VB/VARSPAN/VBS

Description

Record format for FLAMFILE (compressed file).

Syntax restrictions for FLAMv4 or older:

• z/OS
  • RECFM=F/V/U/FB/VB/VBS/FBS
  • RECFORM=FIX/VAR/UNDEF/FIXBLK/VARBLK/VARSPAN/FIXS
  • RECF=FIX/VAR/UNDEF/FIXBLK/VARBLK/VARSPAN/FIXS
    • Note: Not evaluated by FLAM under z/OS
• UNIX
  • -recformat=fix/var/stream
    • Note: The FLAMFILE always contains records of identical size. In the cx8 and vr8 modes, the records can be written either with (variable) or without (fixed) a record size field.
      The stream record format is used in the cx7 mode. If recdelim is not specified, 0x0a is used as the default record delimiter.
      -recformat needs only to be specified for the compression procedure.
• WINDOWS
  • recformat=fix / var / text

Values

• z/OS
  • F/FIX - Fixed record length
  • V/VAR - Variable record length
  • U/UNDEF - Undefined record length
  • FB/FIXBLK - Fix blocked
  • VB/VARBLK - Variable blocked
  • VBS/VARSPAN - Variable spanned
  • FBS/FIXS - Fix standard
• UNIX
  • fix - Fixed-size records, size as set by the -recsize parameter.
  • var - Variable-size records; the record size field is 2 bytes long.
  • stream - Variable-size records with a record delimiter.
• WINDOWS
  • fix - records with a fixed record length (default for all FLAMFILES).
  • var - Variable-size records; the record size field is 2 bytes long.
  • text - Variable-size records with a record delimiter.

Default

• z/OS
  • FB/FIXBLK
• UNIX
  • none
• WINDOWS
  • f/fix

Valid for

• z/OS
  • compression, decompression
• UNIX
  • compression
• WINDOWS
  • compression

Selections

• FIX - Records with a fixed record length (default for all FLAMFILES)
• F - Records with a fixed record length (default for all FLAMFILES)
• VAR - Records with a variable record length. The additional (!) record length field is 2 bytes long
• V - Records with a variable record length. The additional (!) record length field is 2 bytes long
• TEXT - Records with a variable record length and end-of-record characters (CX7 only)
• STREAM - Variable-size records with a record delimiter
• UNDEFINED - Records with undefined record length (Host only)
• UNDEF - Records with undefined record length (Host only)
• U - Records with undefined record length (Host only)
• FIXBLK - Fix blocked (Host only)
• FB - Fix blocked (Host only)
• FIXS - Fix standard (Host only)
• FBS - Fix standard (Host only)
• VARBLK - Variable blocked (Host only)
• VB - Variable blocked (Host only)
• VARSPAN - Variable spanned (Host only)
• VBS - Variable spanned (Host only)