Greetings Elardus.
Are you wanting to just rem ove the carraige control, or would you rather execute and write the ouput out as the finished reports? You could execute the cc programmatically or, if you have LRS/DRS ( probably other products might do similar things). DRS can be told to ignore carriage control and write a dataset or it can execute the cc and write a dataset. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elardus Engelbrecht" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:01:01 AM Subject: Strip column 1 from reports 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
