Record separators (/V) execution command

For more efficient access during the transformation and validation processes, input files with a variable-length format are copied to temporary work files with the /V execution command-specified separators inserted directly into the file. This operation is reversed, and record separators removed, on targets where the output record format type is variable length.

Though from the Command Server processing perspective this is generally more efficient, there is a slight overhead cost of the copy-insertion-deletion operation to take into account for variable-length records

If your requirements can be met using a fixed format, then the use of Record Separator execution command (/V) will not be required along with its slight increased overhead.

If a data set of variable-length records already contains the separators defined to the map embedded in the data, this option should not be used.

See z/OS Batch and z/OS CICS for more information about the /V Record Separators execution command.