Paul Gilmartin at IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 05/30/2012 08:32:36 AM: > >The very best thing of this - These reports are shifted to the left > automagically despite the output datasets are still RECFM=FBA. So no > blanks lines in column 1 are shown, especially in e-mails to my clients. > > > Best? Doesn't this imply that if you printed these RECFM=FBA reports > on a real printer, you'd get (very) undesirable results? > > > ... > >If I browse the FBA dataset as it is used by SMTP, I see this using > ISPF browse (not Edit! ): > > > >ainTitle 2012/05/30 12:34 > >eader > >ata > > > It would be worse on a printer, where col. 1, not seen here, would cause > skips and page throwups, etc.
I would suggest specifying RECFM=FB on the DFSORT output DD when you remove the carriage control characters, to override the default of RECFM=FBA, so the carriage control characters won't be expected. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
