Use the RECORD statement as the second argument to PLISRTx. The syntax of the RECORD statement must be a character string expression which, when evaluated, accepts the following syntax:
>>-'bRECORDbTYPE=rectype--+-------------+--b'------------------>< '-,LENGTH=(n)-'
Even when you use input and output routines to handle the sorted and unsorted data, you must specify the record type as it applies to the work data sets used by sort.
If varying-length strings are passed to sort from an input routine (E15 exit), you should normally specify V as a record format. However, if you specify F, the records are padded to the maximum length with blanks.