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EXTRACT Output

The output contains all the records for the table in the sequence specified by the SEQ keyword. If the table is empty, the function creates a valid null output data set.

Usually, EXTRACT writes each data record as a fixed-length record in a fixed-block format. When you request an EXTRACT of a table that was loaded from a variable-length VSAM file for use by the CA Datacom VSAM Transparency, the function writes each data record as a variable-length record in a variable block format.