What're the advantages/disadvantages of RECFM=FB over RECFM=F?
- by Raja Reddy
While defining a dataset to be created, one of the JCL parameters, DCB has a positional sub-parameter RECFM, has possible values of F,FB,V,VB etc.. What're the advantages/disadvantages of RECFM=FB over RECFM=F or RECFM=VB over RECFM=V? And which case prefers to use what RECFM format?