Mainframe to PC PDF

[lbzh]

I am creating a PDF file on the mainframe, by reading a mainframe print file (FBA 133) and within a data_null statement outputting it to a PDF file using ODS.

When I ftp the results to the PC, the page breaks which appeared on the mainframe (in the first column) are not honored in the PDF. Is there any way around this?

In essence I would like what appears on my mainframe screen
to appear on the PDF including Page breaks. So if I am copying a report from the mainframe, I would like the page headers and footers to be included on 1 PDF page each.

Thanks

 

[ChrisW75]

Ibzh - Hiya, I've never done ODS on the mainframe, there was no ODS when I last used a mainframe to do SAS. There's a few possible causes for this, for a start your mainframe is probably using EBCDIC character set and the PC is ASCII, so translation from one to the other can cause problems.

A search on the SAS Support site has given a few results though. (search string - ods pdf mainframe page break)

http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006928.html

http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/014/014766.html

http://support.sas.com/faq/042/FAQ04244.html