topic Removal of all page breaks in SAS Programming

Removal of all page breaks

Jim_Dillon — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:54:19 GMT

I use the following code to generate a file that I will FTP to z/OS.

PROC PRINTTO PRINT=MVTJSTEP NEW;
options linesize=124 nodate;

PROC REPORT DATA=MVTJSTEP nowd noheader;
      options nodate nonumber pagesize=max;
      title; footnote;
      col MVTJSTEP_REC;

The file has over 32767 records. Althought I have 'pagesize=max; specified, I am still getting page breaks. These page breaks end up adding an addtional character in column 1. Therefore when I transmit this file to MVS into a file that is of that right size, these records will be truncated on the right side. Is there a way within SAS to remove this page break?

Jim

Re: Removal of all page breaks

Cynthia_sas — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:49:53 GMT

Hi:
My mainframe days are long over, but I seem to remember a FORMDLIM or FORMDLM option?
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lesysoptsref/68023/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0vr78nr6afoxzn158j8cj5g224s.htm

I also remember something about NOCC or No Carriage Control, but I only found that for FSLIST:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/68954/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0kmaczvgok09qn1tx9lzzxmj9ru.htm

And, this is older http://support.sas.com/techsup/notes/v8/11/084.html
so I'm not sure it is relevant. You might want to check with Tech Support.

cynthia

Re: Removal of all page breaks

ballardw — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:29:32 GMT

Your OS is?

Re: Removal of all page breaks

Jim_Dillon — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:32:40 GMT

I run SAS on a windows 2012 server.

Re: Removal of all page breaks

Jim_Dillon — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:36:16 GMT

Cynthia,

Thanks for the suggestions but they don't appear to a resolution. I may need to somehow run another process to strip the this page break off.

Re: Removal of all page breaks

ballardw — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:40:02 GMT

Is your Proc Report output actually doing any statistics or break summaries?

If not then don't use Proc Printto. Use an old fashioned data _null_ step with a FILE statement for the destination and put statements.