Literal-1 or identifier-1 specifies the name of the record format to use for the start operation. If you specify literal-1 it must be uppercase and 10 characters or less in length. If you specify identifier-1, it must be a character-string of 10 characters or less, and it must name one of the following:
A value of all blanks is treated as though the FORMAT phrase were not specified.
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