On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:50:20 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) wrote: >>Found the problem >>If go into ISPF/EDIT on the ds it chops off trailing blanks > >"PRESERVE ON" it a good idea, except when you really want to >truncate trailing blanks. > But beware; PRESERVE may not do what you intend (at least not what I expected until I carefully RTFM). If you insert or delete characters, PRESERVE causes trailing blanks to be deleted or removed : so as to maintain the original line length. And, AFAIK, there's still no way to add trailing blanks to, or selectively remove some trailing blanks from an existing line.
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