NBSpool for MPE Reference Guide

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NBSpool Output Commands

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MERGE Parameters

Parameter Description

subset

This parameter specifies the subset of spool files to be merged. Turn to Chapter

2 for information on working with subsets.

filename

This parameter specifies the name of the file to create. If the disk file exists, the

user will be asked to purge it.

recsize

This parameter specifies the record size for the output file. Negative for bytes.

The default is 132 byte records.

blkfact

This parameter specifies the blocking factor for the new file. If omitted, the

optimum blocking factor will be determined.

This parameter indicates that the keep file should have fixed length records.

This is the default.

This parameter indicates that the keep file should have variable length records.

ASCII

This parameter indicates that the keep file should be ASCII. This is the default.

BINARY

This parameter indicates that the keep file should be BINARY.

NOCCTL

If this parameter is specified, the keep file will be built without

CCTL

, and no

carriage control information will be written to it. By default, the file will contain

the carriage control information from the spool file.

ASK

This parameter prompts at each file to include for processing.

EXPAND

This parameter expands line skipping carriage control to blank lines.

SAVECCTL

This parameter keeps the carriage control in the first byte of each record for

non-cctl files. This parameter must be used to save carriage control to labeled

tapes.

NOPAGE

This parameter suppresses form feeds between each spool file in the merged

output. This parameter is ignored if the output file does not use carriage control.

DELIM

This parameter specifies a delimiter string will be inserted between each spool

file. The delimiter string will not appear before the first or after the last spool

files.

numeric

A value between 0 and 255 which corresponds to an ASCII character value. The

% is used to denote octal values.

string

A character string to be inserted. The string should be enclosed in quotes.

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