Hi Elardus,
How about IEBPTPCH? It can handle ANSI or machine carriage control if you want
the report to look like it would have on the printer, or you can use the RECORD
statement -
{label} RECORD {IDENT=(length,'name',input-location)}
{,FIELD=(length
{,input-location}
{,conversion}
{,output-location})}
{,FIELD=...}
to start your input field in column 2 and bypass the carriage control.
Your original dataset could retain all of it's characteristics and the output
of the IEBPTPCH can be directed however you wish.
HTH,
Linda
VPS/DRS can do more than just print. Just sayin'.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elardus Engelbrecht" <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za>
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 9:27:23 AM
Subject: Re: Strip column 1 from reports
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.
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