Sec. 5 End — Publication 4810

The “F” Record is a fixed record length of 750 positions and all positions listed are required. The “F” Record is a summary of the number of all records in the entire file. There is only one “F” Record per file.

This record will be written after the last “P” Record of the entire file. End the file with an End of Transmission “F” Record. No data will be read after the “F” Record.

Note: For all fields marked “ Required,” the transmitter must provide the information described under Field Description and Information. For those fields not marked “ Required,” a transmitter must allow for the field, but may be instructed to enter blanks or zeros in the indicated field position(s) and for the indicated length. All records have a fixed length of 750 positions.

Record Name: End of Transmission “F” Record

Field Positions	Field Title	Length	Field Description and Information
1	Record Type	1	Required. Enter “F.”
2-9	Sponsor Record Count	8	Required. Enter the total number of Sponsor Records on this file. This count must be the same as the total number of “S” records. Right justify the information and fill with leading zeros.
10-17	Administrator Record Count	8	Required.Enter the total number of Administrator Records on this file. This count must be the same as the total number of “A” records. Right justify the information and fill with leading zeros.
18-25	Participant Record Count	8	Required. Enter the total number of Participant Records on this file. This count must be the same as the total number of “P” records. Right justify the information and fill with leading zeros.
26-33	File Record Count	8	Required. Enter the total number of all records in the file, including the Transmitter “T” Record, the Sponsor “S” Record, the Administrator “A” Record, the Participant “P” Records, and End of Transmission “F” Record. Right justify the information and fill with leading zeros.
34-740	Reserved	707	Enter blanks.

Record Name: End of Transmission “F” Record

741-748	Record Sequence Number	8	Required. Enter the number of the record as it appears within the file. The record sequence number for the “T” record will always be “1” (one), since it is the first record on a file and the file can have only one “T” record. Each record, thereafter, must be incremental by one in ascending numerical sequence, that is, 2, 3, 4, etc. Right justify numbers with leading zeros in the field. For example, the “T” record sequence number would appear as “00000001” in the field, the “S” record would be “00000002”, the “A” record, “00000003”, the “P” record, “00000004” and so on until the final record of the file, the “F” record.
749-750	Blank or Carriage Return Line Feed	2	Enter blanks or carriage return line feed (CR/LF) characters.

End of Transmission “F” Record

Record Type	Sponsor Record Count	Administrator Record Count	Participant Record Count	File Record Count	Reserved
1	2-9	10-17	18-25	26-33	34-740
Record Sequence Number	Blank or Carriage Return Line Feed
741-748	749-750	749-750	749-750	749-750	749-750