If I am understanding your question correctly, it doesn't work that way. ISPF does not "simulate a printer." If you write a record with an ANSI control character of '0' you will not see a blank line in ISPF the way you would on a physical printer.
I think if you look at the heading of your ISPF browse you will see that you are by default viewing columns 2 through whatever your screen width is. If you do a LEFT (usually PF 10) you will see the '0' in column one. I "get" what you want. A "simulated printer mode" with blank lines and "page ejects" would occasionally be useful. Charles On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 21:07:31 -0500, Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> wrote: >I am looking at the DCB parameters for my snap DCB > >I’m trying to write records to the file before snap > >So first comes the BDW for 4 bytes then comes next 4 bytes RDW > >The 9 th byte would then be the control character > >So……. > >If I move a 0 to BDW+8 it should space 2 lines before writting the record >going to ISPF browse doesn’t seem that way as the record appears right after >******** TOP OF DATA ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
