APPLY WRITE-ONLY clause

The APPLY WRITE-ONLY clause optimizes buffer and device space allocation for files that have standard sequential organization, have variable-length records, and are blocked.

If you specify this phrase, the buffer is truncated only when the space available in the buffer is smaller than the size of the next record. Otherwise, the buffer is truncated when the space remaining in the buffer is smaller than the maximum record size for the file.

APPLY WRITE-ONLY is effective only for QSAM files.

file-name-2: Each file must have standard sequential organization.

APPLY WRITE-ONLY clauses must agree among corresponding external file description entries. For an alternate method of achieving the APPLY WRITE-ONLY results, see the description of the compiler option, AWO in the Enterprise COBOL Programming Guide.