It's the responsibility of the separator to start each DS on a front side; there is not and should not be anything that device specific on SPOOL.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYSOUT FORMS question On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:44:19 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >It's been quite a few years since we had mainframe attached printers, and I'm >trying to recall what the FORMS SYSOUT parameter is used for. I... > IIRC, long ago we had an MVS guest directing SYSOUTs to a virtual printer. But all SYSOUTs from any single job would appear inconveniently in a single VM spool file. I could circumvent that by specifying a different FORMS on each SYSOUT data set. The value of the FORMS option seemed irrelevant. I wanted separate spool files so each data set printed would begin on the front of a leaf. Otherwise it was likely to start on the verso side of thee previous data set. Evidently the CCW that started a new leaf was not reflected in the VM spool. BTW, is there any defined mapping from CHARS to CCSID? Or a way to access the CCSID option on the DD statement from SDSF? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
