How to generate fancy text

vasanthz · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:12 pm

Hi,

How to generate fancy text like the "S" below in mainframe? Often these kind of art comes on software logs.
Is there software or a REXX Exec that can generates this?

I am aware of 'SAY' in REXX, but that approach is messy, since every line has to be chiseled.
Just a curiosity, no business need attached

CICS Guy · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:15 pm

Maybe Google "banner" programs?

PeterHolland · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:05 pm

That fancy text is used for separator pages (like JES job output).
We had (my company) a program called SEPARATE supplied with
an EXEC text parm to do that kind of things.
I vaguely remember that that program used an IBM supplied
routine for this trick.
I once did see the coding but forgot to put it in my own libraries
(is that stealing?)

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 5:10 pm

IIRC the <thing> used to build the block letters for jes separator pages is IEFSD095

the CBT tape at Use [URL] BBCode for External Links has some sources dealing with the issue
( mostlly modified things to add more chars )

PeterHolland · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 5:38 pm

vasanthz · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:15 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I downloaded CBT # 136. (The only one that had IEFSD095 which was less than 1MB).

But the program was in Assembler

.

Drew Barrymoore is allergic to coffee,
& im allergic to Assembler

Let me try my luck with other CBTs.

Regards,

PeterHolland · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:22 pm

For rexx see :

home.roadrunner.com/~mvsrexx/REXX/blox.txt

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:26 pm

You will find only assembler stuff there

vasanthz · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:22 pm