Date:         Thu, 10 May 2001 17:09:14 +0100
Reply-To:     DavidJohnson@HALIFAX.CO.UK
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         David Johnson <DavidJohnson@HALIFAX.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Page breaks missing when .LST FTP'd from MVS
Comments: To: zqr0@CDC.GOV
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James' original post below:

SAS-L Digest - 10 May 2001 - Special issue (#2001-582)

A seemingly common problem James.

We have a similar problem with output generated from DB2 tables on our
mainframe and redirected to a file.  It is then reprinted on request.  There
is a <CR> in the text that can be parsed, if you want to read and 'put' the
text back onto the printer.  The problem is that the command 'Put _PAGE_;'
does not work with LAN connected printers.

In the end we used the external file viewer in AF and it's printing
capabilities.  We tried very many processes to get consistent output, and we
found two things needed to be set:

.       The page and line size for the Windows session is read using
%SysFunc( GetOption( ...) )

.       It is then passed to the mainframe when the connect session is
established, and assigned to that session.

.       To preserve line counts we also defined our page layout to ALWAYS
have a footnote containing the usual authorship and diagnostic text.  This
preserves the page size when the PrintTo file is written.  Otherwise, a page
with 13 data lines follows line 13 with line 1 of the new page, prepended
with the <CR> value.  If you add a footnote, the 13 data lines are followed
by blank lines until the footnote is put out in the usual position on the
page.

Kind regards

** ##*

David Johnson
> Group Technology & Systems - Mortgages
Business Information Systems Consultant
Collinsons 2nd Floor
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Ext. : 31360
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Date:    Thu, 10 May 2001 11:27:36 -0400
From:    "Brittain, James" <zqr0@CDC.GOV>
Subject: Page breaks missing when .LST FTP'd from MVS

Has anyone had the same problem that I am having?  I used a PROC PRINTTO in
a program that ran on our mainframe and then I FTP'd the .LST file to
Windows.  When I try to print it the page breaks are completely ignored.
Are the page breaks that are used in MVS not carried over to Windows through
FTP?  Is there some option that I need to specify?

I tried to print it using WORDPAD months ago and that is when I originally
noticed the problem.  I thought since I downloaded the new SAS viewer ver.
8.2 yesterday that maybe it would now work but it still doesn't work.

Is there any way to use PROC PRINTTO in MVS and be able to print it later
and have the titles, footnotes, and page breaks all look right?

Thanks in advance,
        Jim Brittain

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