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krunalbafna
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Hi,
I am trying to generate report using ADVANCING PHRASE in cobol.
Following is the statement used:
WRITE PRINTLINE FROM HEADR-2 AFTER ADVANCING 3 LINES
As per understanding 2 blank lines should be inserted.
But no blanks line are inserted and it is printed just below the previous line. May you help how i am going wrong. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Write the print output to a dataset and then browse this dataset. Make sure you look in column 1 as this is where the "spacing" is stored.
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| As per understanding 2 blank lines should be inserted. |
A bit of a misunderstanding. . .
When printed, 2 lines should be advanced, but there is no reason to clutter the output and waste space by actually generating physical blank lines. |
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Robert Sample
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| As per understanding 2 blank lines should be inserted. |
This is wrong. Mainframe printers, for more than 40 years, have supported the concept of carriage control. A special character in column 1 (the carriage control column) indicates to the printer that it should skip two lines before printing the rest of the data on that line. There are other special characters to cause the printer to go to the top of the next page, double space, overprint, and so forth. |
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Kjeld
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| If you browse a FBA dataset, use CC and NOCC commands to turn display of the carrage control charcters on and off, respectively. |
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Phrzby Phil
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An interesting SAS usage:
At many installations, SAS logs show error messages in three consecutive lines. This seems odd, until you view column 1 and see that the CC character for the 2nd and 3rd error message lines is "+" (do not advance), causing a triple print on an actual line printer, hence showing these lines bolder due to overprinting. |
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Jose Mateo
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| Your problem might be with the compler option "ADV", specifying "ADV" wil add 1 byte to your record length for the carriage control. "NOADV" with a record length of 132 for your print output will not skip or space more than 1 line because the CC byte is not included in your output but If you have 133 as your print line length then it should work. |
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