Elardus, It's probably all ready been mentioned, a small rexx clist can do this also... Maybe 10 lines or so...also depends on what else you doing with the data, any formatting, etc...
Hth Regards, Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Elardus, > > Wow, 3800 printers, I remember they forms and then you could over or insert > you text data , e to into the form for printing..worked the awhile ago..10+ > yrs my friend > > > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >>> In the wider perspective, ASA carriage control was originally a form of >>> presentational markup targeted at a class of output devices, impact >>> printers, then preponderant, now dwindling. >> >> Markup, yes, this is the correct word in these times of markup languages. >> The ASA cc was indeed a type of markup where you say, put text here, start >> new page there, overwrite a line there and there. It reminds me of the type >> of first column (AFAIK) where you tell the 3800 laser printer to use this or >> that font on this or that line. >> >> Any greybeards remembering this 3800 toy? ;-D >> >>> It would be chaotic to produce an instance of each report for each class of >>> output device (printer, 3278, GUI display, etc.) Semantic markup is the >>> necessary answer. It would likewise be chaotic to undertake conversion of >>> each report generator to generate reports with semantic markup. A likely >>> better place to do this is in a SYSOUT writer that filters ASA carriage >>> control to a semantic markup language such as HTML, or perhaps XML. >> >> Agreed 100%. Is there such software [1] ? I'm aware of XML on /zOS, but can >> you use it on a SYSOUT? >> >>> And it might be unreasonable to expect such a filter to generate proper >>> markup for intended tabular material in reports. (Does XMITIP, for >>> example, to this?) >> >> Interesting question! Thanks, I wonder what answer you will get? >> >> Thanks Paul for your kind comments. It is much appreciated! >> >> Groete / Greetings >> Elardus Engelbrecht >> >> [1] - It seemed to me that LRS/DRS can do this, but then, there is no actual >> printing in this case. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
