Bob, thanks a bunch for taking the time to spell it out for me. Yes, I was saying "print dataset" while meaning "terminal output".
OK, so the NOTOC option will fix it. Fantastic! Bob, if you ever get near Katy, Texas (Houston), I'll buy you lunch, or dinner - your choice! Same thing if I ever make it up to POK or wherever it is that you call home. Todd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:10 PM Subject: Re: IPCS Standard Print Service > > I ran the requested experiment and got basically what I expected in the > RECFM=VBA data set. The following was cut and pasted from ISPF browse > afterward - after turning on its display of control characters: > > 1COMPON=REAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT,C > +________________________________ > 0WHY DOES THIS SHOW UP ON LINE 4? > > The first line of output from MINIVERB should appear on line 3, following > an underscored title line on line 1 and a blank line 2. > > You've been using the term "print dataset" which is what I've been > addressing, but your script would cause MINIVERB output to be sent to the > terminal as a destination unless you added "print noterm" as options like I > did. There I do see 3 blank lines preceding the first one produced by > MINIVERB. That's a consequence of PRDMP compatibility as well as some TSO > terminal output stream considerations. > > o PRDMP started the output from all verbs on a new page, but it didn't get > around to supporting ADPLEJEC until its final years. ADPLEJEC is the bit > that says eject. Old PRDMP exits put out between 60 and 90 blank lines to > cause the current page to overflow as a means to get to the top of the next > page. > > o The TSO output stream has no sense of pagination since it originally was > written to continuous forms fed through hardcopy terminals like 2741s. > > IPCS's terminal support tries to make sense of all this by limiting the > number of consecutive blank lines that it actually honors and, conversely, > by slipping in some (3) blank lines when something nonblank shows up in the > output stream. > So the 3 blank lines that you see in your terminal output are the > consequence of the VERBEXIT subcommand putting out one blank line with a > page eject indication before giving control to the exit. > > Now for some good news since you don't seem fond of the blank lines. There > is a NOTOC option on VERBEXIT that suppresses several inherited behaviors > related to invoking verb exits, and one of those behaviors is forcing a new > page. If you change your invocation to "verbx miniverb notoc", you'll have > your output start on the first line. (If you say "note 'hi' page", you'll > get the 3 blank lines before HI.) > > Bob Wright - MVS Service Aids ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
