Storage record
In computer science, a storage record is:
- a group of related data, words, or fields treated as a meaningful unit; for instance, a Name, Address, and Telephone Number can be a "Personal Record";
- a self-contained collection of information about a single object; a record is made up of a number of distinct items, called fields.
A number of shell programs (for example, awk, join, and sort) are designed to process data consisting of records separated by newlines, where each record contains a number of fields separated by spaces, commas, or some other character.
- Fixed-length Record
- Variable-length Record
Source: IBM - z/OS Glossary of terms and abbreviations