Allow Incomplete Text Items

The Allow Incomplete Text Items setting is geared towards copybooks that end with a long PIC X(...) or PIC G(...) item that is unlikely to be fully populated with data. To preserve resources, your program might choose to only deliver the beginning portion of this field that contains non-blank characters.

Note that this field is selectable only when Allow Incomplete Records is selected.

If Allow Incomplete Text Items is selected, Parse returns the string based on the available data even though it might be shorter than the declared item length. When Allow Incomplete Text Items is not selected this field would be discarded.