Use this file-, record-, or field-level keyword to specify that the printer device is to skip to a specific line number after it prints one or more lines.
The format of the keyword is:
SKIPA(skip-after-line-number)
The parameter value is required and must be in the range 1 through 255.
If you specify the keyword at the file level, you must option it with one or more indicators. If you specify the keyword at the record or field level, option indicators are optional. The specified skip is performed after each record in the file prints.
If you specify the keyword at the record level, skipping is performed after all the lines associated with the record print and before any file-level SKIPA keywords are applied.
If you specify the keyword at the field level, skipping is performed after the field prints.
You can specify this keyword once at the file level, once at the record level, and once for each field.
This keyword is valid at the file level for all records, but not at the record level or the field level for records that have line numbers specified (positions 39 through 41). (The line number entries are flagged as errors.)
The SKIPA 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.
This keyword is not allowed at the file level for files defined as DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) on the CRTPRTF command.
Option indicators are valid for this keyword.
The following example shows how to specify the SKIPA keyword.
|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00011A FIELDA 132A 1SKIPA(12)
A