For All Other Files

If Format 3 is used for non-tape files, the records are treated as fixed length records the size of the largest data record. The logical records are truncated or padded to the length of the record as defined in the CRTxxxF CL command. User length in the following table is defined as the largest record associated with the given file, as specified by its record description.

  Input/Output Type User Length Less Than File Record Length User Length Greater Than File Record Length
Input Truncation Pad with blanks.
Output Pad with blanks Truncation if old file (non-empty); for new (empty files) the larger record length is used.
Note: The maximum record length for a file is 32 767.