Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Best? Doesn't this imply that if you printed these RECFM=FBA reports on a >real printer, you'd get (very) undesirable results?
These clients (nearly all of them) are using windoze or open source e-mail client software and network printers. Generally they DON'T print them often because they are [needless? ;-D ] worrying about chopping down trees, tree-hugging thing, cost saving campaigns, too lazy to collect printouts, etc. ;-D They generally save these text format reports on their disks for later perusal or auditing. Most of these reports are generally partly cut/copy/pasted into something else or imported (text -> columns) in a spreadsheet. [1] I can always copy the data from the FBA datasets and print them on a real printer. [2] I do that only on ad-hoc requests. >It would be worse on a printer, where col. 1, not seen here, would cause skips >and page throwups, etc. Agreed. This is not a concern. I can always rerun my reports without NOCC if needed. This is easy, because I keep my source data and reports for a while. But Paul, many thanks for catching this. Much appreciated! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I have in the past imported those text where I just skip the first column in a spreadsheet and then copy the rest back to a text format file or just leave them there in the spreadsheet. It is a PITA, while fast, but still a real PITA, to do these things. [2] - Some of these reports go straight to a LRS / VPS printer, but they are being eliminated over the time. These users are generally forgetting to put in paper, causing TCP/IP errors and possible loss of data to be printed. Or these users don't have any budget for paper! Wow, these interesting times!!! ;-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
