Comments on: AS/400 Supress Form feed and Carriage return Characters for spool file http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-supress-form-feed-and-carriage-return-characters-for-spool-file/ Sat, 25 May 2013 22:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: woodengineer http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-supress-form-feed-and-carriage-return-characters-for-spool-file/#comment-55562 woodengineer Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:08:56 +0000 #comment-55562 One option is to copy the spool file to a DB2 file (CPYSPLF) with CTLCHAR(*NONE ).
This will strip off the forms control character, leaving just the data in the report in your physical file.

]]> By: eamon60 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-supress-form-feed-and-carriage-return-characters-for-spool-file/#comment-55560 eamon60 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:51:56 +0000 #comment-55560 Diac, thank for the feedback. We are coummunicating to the wintel sever through an outq pointing to to a network wintel server. Below is an example of the outq definition. I hope this helps clarify the problem.

Queue: LATFAXSND Library: QUSRSYS

Status:
Writer active . . . . . . . . . . . : Y
Writer name(s) if active . . . . . . : LATFAXSND
Output queue held . . . . . . . . . : N
Maximum spooled file size:
Number of pages . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Starting time . . . . . . . . . . . :
Ending time . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Writers to autostart . . . . . . . . . : 1
Display any file . . . . . . . . . . . : *YES
Job separators . . . . . . . . . . . . : 0
Operator controlled . . . . . . . . . : *YES
Order of files on queue . . . . . . . : *FIFO
Data queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Queue: LATFAXSND Library: QUSRSYS

Authority to check . . . . . . . . . . : *DTAAUT
Remote system . . . . . . . . . . . . : SSCCFAX

Remote printer queue . . . . . . . . . : LATFAXSND

Queue for writer messages . . . . . . : QSYSOPR
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *LIBL
Connection type . . . . . . . . . . . : *IP
Destination type . . . . . . . . . . . : *OTHER
Host print transform . . . . . . . . . : *YES
Manufacturer type and model . . . . . : *WSCST
Workstation customizing object . . . . : ESKERFAX
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QGPL
Image configuration . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Destination options . . . . . . . . . : *NONE

Print separator page . . . . . . . . . : *YES
User defined option . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
User defined object:
Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Object type . . . . . . . . . . . . :
User driver program . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Spooled file ASP . . . . . . . . . . . : *SYSTEM
More…

]]> By: djac http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-supress-form-feed-and-carriage-return-characters-for-spool-file/#comment-55557 djac Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:40:52 +0000 #comment-55557 It would be useful to know how you are ‘sending’ the spool file to the Wintel system.

Please detail the steps involved.

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