If they were labels, wouldn't it be a good idea to block by the number of lines in a page?
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Linda Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > A long time ago, we had a lot of these in my shop. COBOL programs that wrote > labels at 133/133 FA, printed on continous form label stock, generally 3 > labels wide . The RECFM was set in the COBOL program, and that was where it > had to be fixed. > > At that time, the big advantage was that the labels could be unspooled from > tape direct to printer, so it gave the operator very tight control on back > space, etc. if a label peeled off in the printer and needed to be recovered. > If the print ran through JES2, there would always be a lot fewer 'pages' in > the buffer if the printer had to be backspaced there. > > There were some attempts made to change the DCB after the dataset was built, > but they were not successful. I don't know exactly what they tried - I was > at the printing end in those days. > > HTH, > > Linda > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
