John I think your in trouble - or you can roll up your sleeves and get programming - in your favourite language.
I remembered that the difference between A and M is that one prints and then moves the print carriage while the other moves the print carriage and then prints. I guess you can see that this negates your "simple". Well, I hate knowing only half the story so I jumped into the DFSMS shelf and found the matter explained - in APPENDIX1.3 Appendix C. Control Characters of "z/OS V1R10.0 DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets". In the table of the codes in APPENDIX1.3.1 Machine Code we find "Print--Then Act " and in the table of codes in APPENDIX1.3.2 ISO/ANSI we find "Action before Printing a Line" So now I'm happy - but I suspect you will not be! Chris Mason On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:43:58 -0500, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a simple way to convert a DASD dataset which is RECFM=VBM (or FBM) >to VBA (or FBA)? We are converting a lot of reports to be ftp'ed to a >Windows platform. The program on the Windows platform does not understand >machine control and needs the ftp to convert from "ANSI control" to the >appropriate Windows control sequences the way that it does for VBA when the >ASAPRINT option is used. In particular, the program needs a "control L" >(form feed) to delimit the pages of the report. > >-- >John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
