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  3. December 2006

Re: trimming trailing blanks in spooled output...

In the iSeries 400 world, spooled reports are fixed format. Our spooled reporta are up to 198 print positions wide, normally we use 132 wide, in a few cases dictated by PC printer width. If we don't populate a sideways space with characters, it is blank there. Similarly vertically the length in lines is dictated by the software. We use #s like 68 34 66, while industry standard is like 88. If the software is not populating some lines of a report, then the remainder of the fixed dimensions are blanks. 


List,

Is there a built-in mechanism on the iSeries that will automatically "trim"
(or truncate) trailing blanks that are written to spooled reports? We are
migrating some applications from the VSE/mainframe world. At one time, this
was an issue that had to be addressed by its spooler. I was wondering if
anyone could enlighten me on what the iSeries will can and will do in these
cases. TIA

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Regards,

Michael Rosinger
Systems Programmer / DBA
Computer Credit, Inc.
640 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101
336-761-1524
m rosinger at cciws dot com


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