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Prabakar_S

Hi All,

Is there any way to avoid carriage control characters while using DISPLAY DD statement in easytrieve?

To write out a packed decimal field as edited numeric, into a flat file (not report), I'm using the DISPLAY DD statement. But I would like to suppress the CC character.

Any and all help greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

kolusu · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

Prabakar_S,

You can use CONTROL option to print carriage control character.The CONTROL option sets the print carriage control character for the print line. Valid alphanumeric values for literal-1 are 0 through 9, +, -, A, B, or C (not valid for use in report procedures). When filename-1 is associated with an extended reporting printer, the printer must support ANSI or Machine carriage controls.

Prabakar_S · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:29 am Post subject:

Kolusu,

Thanks for the info! But actually, i need to know a way to AVOID CC characters...

To elaborate--
A DISPLAY DD statement prints the actual text from postion 2, with a blank in position 1 (if CONTROL is omitted).
I would like to have the data from position 1 itself.

Any way to do this?

Thanks.

Prabakar_S · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

Note: I'm trying to replicate REMOVECC functionality of SORT