On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:05:42 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Linda Mooney wrote: > >>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. > >The thing is, these reports are mailed out and the text files are having those >unwanted cc on the first column. > 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.
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. (PDF is targeted to too narrow a class of output devices -- I know of no PDF renderer for 3278.) 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?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
