IIRC, this is more of an SDSF 'issue', not 'problem'. SDSF always presents print data with ANSI control characters, as in VB*A* regardless of what the application program actually produced. Furthermore, I think that SDSF presents only single advances regardless of the generating program. JES2 reports the number of lines produced by the application program, which may be machine characters, as in VB*M*, and may include double or triple spacing. Older IBM utilities especially are famous for producing xBM lines. If I'm off base here, I beg to be set straight.
As to the comment about not being able to ask questions with SR, I have the option of checking 'usage' for report type. That may depend on the type of support contract you have with IBM, but look for the option when opening an SR. The option is on the generic header page and not presented externally. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Juergen Keller <juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 09/07/2012 06:52 AM Subject: JES2 record count Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> hi all, is there someone having experiences with JES2? I have a strange "problem". A user created a spool file and SDSF and $DJ are showing a record count of 12 lines. When I look at the file I see 29 lines and when I write it to a dataset (XDC-command in SDSF) I will also have 29 lines. The record format is VBA and there are 17 lines containing only a control character in the first byte. This means that JES2 is not counting records having only a control character and no further data. Can someone confirm this or do we have a bug? I could not find something in the documentation but maybe I missed it. regards Juergen P.S. When having ETR I could ask IBM. With SR you can only open a problem :-( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
