Forms for Direct-Access WRITE Statements

Direct-access WRITE statements transfer output data to external records with direct access. (The attributes of a direct-access file are established by the OPEN statement.)

A direct-access WRITE statement can be formatted or unformatted, and takes one of the following forms:

Formatted:

WRITE (eunit, format, rec [, iostat] [, err]) [io-list]

Unformatted:

WRITE (eunit, rec [, iostat] [, err]) [io-list]

For more information, see WRITE in the A to Z Reference.

This section discusses the following topics:

• Rules for Formatted Direct-Access WRITE Statements
• Rules for Unformatted Direct-Access WRITE Statements

For More Information:

• See I/O control-list specifiers.
• See I/O lists.