On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:10:58 -0800 Ron Norman <rjn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > BDB has no concept of a record size. I'm not sure what that implies. I think my question is, "does ISAM have concept of record size?" I think that answer is Yes, ergo any ISAM implementation must record and represent a record size. It's one of a handful a file attributes maintained by the storage system that need to be checked for agreement when a Cobol application opens the file. --jkl
