Good day to all
Is there a way to strip column 1 from reports, SYSOUT, output from ICETOOL,
RACFRW, etc?
As it is now, the method of specifying the ISO/ANSI/FIPS control characters ('
', '0', '-', '+', '1') [1] is not really used much these days. It makes these
reports 'dirty', 'ugly', etc.
Background, I have several jobs with reports from IBM utilities, sort results,
etc, but these outputs are having those column 1.
For example, using ICETOOL, despite trying out options and RECFM=FB, my output
ends up having RECFM=FBA (column 1 with that control characters and other
columns the report/output)
Of course I could try out DFSORT with copy everything except column 1. But then
I had to insert that step everywhere where that column can be eliminated.
(Something like this: OUTREC FIELDS=(1:1,CHANGE=(1,C'1',C' ') )
Or I could feed those reports in a Assembler program which can do a TR.
(similar to REXX's TRANSLATE function).
Was this ever discussed here on IBM-MAIN? Is it possible? Am I overlooking
something so very simple that it *must* be overlooked? :-D
Any pointers are absolutely welcomed with gratitude.
Many thanks in advance.
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
[1] - ISO/ANSI/FIPS control characters which are in column 1:
b = Space one line (blank code)
0 = Space two lines
- = Space three lines
+ = Suppress space
1 = Skip to channel 1
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