Simple report

You can produce a simple report by specifying just the required operands. For example, if you specify FROM and LIST operands, and ON operands for 10-byte character and 7-byte zoned decimal fields, the output in the list data set can be represented as follows:

(p,m,f)                (p,m,f)
characters             sddddddddddddddd
 .                                     .
 .                                     .
 .                                     .

A control character occupies the first byte of each list data set record. Left-justified standard headings are printed at the top of each page to indicate the contents of each column, followed by a line for each record showing the characters and numbers in the fields of that record.

The fields are printed in columns in the same order in which they are specified in the DISPLAY statement. All fields are left-justified. For numeric fields, leading zeros are printed, a - is used for the minus sign, and a + is used for the plus sign.

By default, the first column of data starts immediately after the control character, and three blanks appear between columns. The NOCC operand can be used to suppress the control character. The INDENT operand can be used to change the number of blanks before the first column of data. The BETWEEN operand can be used to change the number of blanks between columns.

The standard column widths are as follows:

Character data: the length of the character field, or 20 bytes if the field length is less than 21 bytes
Numeric data: 16 bytes, or 32 bytes if the numeric field is BI or FI with a length greater than 4, PD with a length greater than 8, ZD, CSF, FS, UFF or SFF with a length greater than 15, or FL.
Record number: 15 bytes

HEADER operands can be used to change or suppress the headings. Formatting items or the PLUS or BLANK operand can be used to change the appearance of numeric fields in the report. PLUS, BLANK, and HEADER operands can be used to change the width of the columns for numeric and character fields and the justification of headings and fields.

The NOHEADER operand can be used to create list data sets containing only data records. Data sets created in this way can be processed further by other operators (for example, STATS or UNIQUE) using CH format for character values or FS format for numeric values.

The TOTAL, MAXIMUM, MINIMUM, and AVERAGE operands can be used to print statistics for numeric fields after the columns of data. Formatting items can be used to suppress the statistics for selected numeric fields. The COUNT operand can be used to print the record count after the columns of data.