What're the advantages/disadvantages of RECFM=FB over RECFM=F?

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Published on 2010-05-13T01:18:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 1:24 UTC
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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?

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