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The information is lost anyway because the compiler complains and then it is extremely time consuming to go thru every line and manually delete the offending characters. Prior to V5R4 the compiler ignored anythingin cc1-5 now it doesn't.
There are several options available to you, all rely on the idea that you want to erase the first 5 columns.
Record keystrokes Home, space x 5, down arrow Play it back over every line.Use block overlay to overlay a hunk of spaces over the top of columns 1-5. (Alt-R, Alt-R, Alt-Z)
Use LLT5 on line 1, llt5 on the last line (sequence number commands) then RR5, RR. This will shift all lines left 5 and truncate the first 5 columns, then shift 'em all back. You WILL get syntax errors, but they'll go away when you RR5 the lines back.
Go to the top, Alt-L, go to the bottom, Alt-L (select all lines as a block) then slowly use Alt-F7 to shift left -- Lpex will throw errors so you have to wait for the syntax checker to moan about your (now) crappy code before you ust Alt-F7 again. Do that 5 times, then do Alt-F8 5 times. Alt-U when done.
Write a macro to do it. (too much for me at the moment; I'd open it in Code and do it in Rexx. That's not a gripe as much as an admission of my own laziness.)
--buck
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