Logical records and buffers

Data is transmitted across conversations in logical records. A logical record consists of a 2-byte length field followed by up to 32765 bytes of data. The value in the length field specifies the length of the data and the length field together.

The transaction program can receive data one logical record at a time or in one input/output buffer at a time. Both buffer size and logical record size are independent of the SNA RU size used on the session.