<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="reference" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="SKIPB (Skip Before) keyword in printer files" /> <meta name="abstract" content="Use this file-, record-, or field-level keyword to specify that the printer device is to skip to a specific line number before it prints the next line(s)." /> <meta name="description" content="Use this file-, record-, or field-level keyword to specify that the printer device is to skip to a specific line number before it prints the next line(s)." /> <meta name="DC.subject" content="SKIPB (Skip Before) keyword" /> <meta name="keywords" content="SKIPB (Skip Before) keyword" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rzakdmstprkey.htm" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2001, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2001, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rzakdmstptskipb" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>SKIPB (Skip Before) keyword in printer files</title> </head> <body id="rzakdmstptskipb"><a name="rzakdmstptskipb"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">SKIPB (Skip Before) keyword in printer files</h1> <div><p>Use this file-, record-, or field-level keyword to specify that the printer device is to skip to a specific line number before it prints the next line(s).</p> <div class="section"><p>The format of the keyword is:</p> <pre>SKIPB(skip-before-line-number)</pre> <p>The parameter value is required and must be in the range 1 through 255.</p> <p>If you specify this keyword at the file level, you must option it with one or more indicators; otherwise, option indicators are optional. The specified skip is performed before each record in the file prints and after any file-level SKIPB operations are applied.</p> <p>If you specify this keyword at the record level, skipping is performed before any of the lines associated with that record print.</p> <p>If you specify this keyword at the field level, skipping is performed before the field prints.</p> <p>You can specify this keyword once at the file level, once at the record level, and once for each field.</p> <p>This keyword is valid at the file level for all records, but not at the record or field level for records that have line numbers specified (positions 39 through 41). (The line numbers are flagged as errors.)</p> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If you do not use line numbers and do not specify skip or space keywords, overprinting can result.</div> <p>The SKIPB keyword is not valid at either the field level or record level if the record format also has the BOX, ENDPAGE, GDF, LINE, OVERLAY, PAGSEG, or POSITION keywords specified.</p> <p>This keyword is not allowed at the file level for files defined as DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) on the CRTPRTF command.</p> <p>Option indicators are valid for this keyword.</p> </div> <div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Example</h4><p>The following example shows how to specify the SKIPB keyword.</p> <pre>|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8 00022A R RFMTPR SKIPB(5) A</pre> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzakdmstprkey.htm" title="See the valid keyword entries for defining printer files in this topic.">Keyword entries for printer files (positions 45 through 80)</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>