Because it's a printable dataset. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2026 9:49 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Question on RECFM=VBA External Message: Use Caution I just have one question then Since most snap DCB goes to DASD why have RECFM=VBA VB would be good enough I thought SVC 51 aka snap/sdump uses these to insert blank lines Obviously ad you said that’s not the case it just does a write Thanks On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
