Sequential File

Hi,

I am a newbie in MVS-Cobol. When I tried to allocate a Sequential file
of LRECl=60 using the following code...

//STEP02 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD01 DD DSN=AISPAS.STUDENT.DATA,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
// UNIT=SYSDA,
// SPACE=(CYL,(50,50)),
// DCB=(BLKSIZE=0,LRECL=60,RECFM=FB)

I got the file length as 60 but of which 52 is used for data storage
and the rest 8 length was used up for storing number

00000100
00000200
00000300

....etc

sample record from the file

=COLS> ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6
000100 record0001 RIYU SHAH 24 34/789 alabama US 895636 00000100

Thus even though I am allocating a record of length 60 I am not able to
utilize the whole length. Can I know where I gone wrong in here?

Thank a lot in advance.

regards,
Praveen.

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