RE: looking for recommendations on report merge product...

Also, check the data file to see if the control character is in position
one.


Gregory A. Garner
Garner Data Systems, Inc
4270 Grand Teton Parkway
Suwanee, GA 30024
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"Gregory A. Garner" <ggarner_gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you want a programming solution perform try a copy spool file command
for
all the spool files into a data file specifying:
"Replace or add records . . . . . *ADD *REPLACE, *ADD
"Control character . . . . . . . *FCFC *NONE, *FCFC, *PRTCTL.

The *fcfc places all the print controls into position 1 of the data file.

Make the data file as wide as your widest spool file +1. 133 usually
works.

When all of the spool files are in the data file you will need to copy the
data file back to a spool file.

Do an ovrprtf to a printer file. I usually use qprint.

Specify:
Control character . . . . . . . *FCFC
Also override to the output queue you want.

Then CPYF from the data file to qprint...

I think that is all of the steps.

Gregory,

Actually we tried diligently to get that to work a couple of months ago but
were unsuccessful. We tried both *FCFC and *PRTCTL for CTLCHAR. What we
ended up with was all of the "data" from the reports but lost all of the
blank lines and the carriage control characters for top-of-page, etc. We
used a guide that IBM provided for us that is basically the same steps that
you outlined.

This is a v5r4 system. If you have any other ideas I would be happy to
pursue them if there is a chance we can accomplish this *without* purchasing

a 3rd party product.