Re: AS/36 Unprintable character check

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

I used to work on 36 ... my memory may be faulty.

I think there was a code somewhere in the H specification of the RPG program
where you could specify that in the event of an unprintable character, it
would substitute a blank space ... there might also be something in the OCL
PRINTER statement that can do this.

How you might be having the problem is if you switched printers from a
sophisticated one to a simple one that cannot do the full character set &
this report is printing something that the new printer cannot cope with.
Another possible cause is if the report is printing the actual data that is
out there & what is out there is garbage.  You need to take a look at the
report on-line before it prints to see what needs to be cleaned up.

> I've got a report that runs on an Advanced 36, which is generating a steady
>  stream of unprintable character check messages. The printer stops until the
>  error is cleared, an info error message is logged to the console, this may
>  happen more than 50 times on one very long printed report. What do I need
to
>  do to get this printer to ignore this error?

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)