Mike,
I am adding new programs onto some old code that writes string record followed by numeric arrays.
The calls and objects usually get the entire string record portion even when only one field is used.
New work is designed to be more maintainable by use of record IO and composite string variables.
These generally have to be integrated with the existing calls.
Passing composite strings into lightly modified sub calls/objects would be helpful if this is an actual supported feature. My testing indicates this maybe possible, but the documentation says otherwise.