Eliminate unnecessary fields with INREC

If you need to reformat your records, using INREC to significantly shorten them can result in faster processing.

Remember that INREC reformats records before they are processed, and OUTREC reformats them after they are processed. Therefore, you should use INREC to shorten records and OUTREC to lengthen records. For a summary of the control statements and the corresponding record positions to refer to when using INREC, see Table 1.

Table 1. Control Statement and Corresponding Records with INREC
Control Statement	Original Records	Reformatted Records
SORT		✓
MERGE		✓
SUM		✓
OUTREC		✓
OUTFIL		✓
INCLUDE	✓
OMIT	✓

For details on INREC, see Reformatting records with fixed fields.