In reply to Leonid Batkhan.

I like your proposed addition to the documentation. Actually, it got me wondering about the LRECL option. There isn't a lot of documentation on that either. : ) Maybe one part of it is that the LRECL option (whether system option or option on the infile statement) determines the length of the input buffer (I think, I'm not sure!) and that determines the amount of data read into the input buffer by the INPUT statement. So even if the INPUT statement reads no variables into the PDV, it will still read LRECL characters into the input buffer and assign that value to _INFILE_.