BMARGIN Operand

The BMARGIN operand determines the bottom margin for printed output in terms of blank lines. The number of blank lines for the bottom margin can be any number from 0 lines to 6 less than the PAGELEN value. In other words, the PAGELEN value minus the BMARGIN value and the TMARGIN value must be greater than or equal to 6. A printed page must contain at least 6 lines of data. To use the BMARGIN operand, issue the PRINTDS command with:

The DATASET operand immediately followed by the data set name enclosed in parentheses.
The BMARGIN operand followed by the number of blank lines to be left at the bottom of each page. Enclose the number of blank lines in parentheses.

If the BMARGIN operand is omitted, the default is BMARGIN(0).

Example
To print data set PREFIX.TEST.DATA with a bottom margin of 7 blank lines, enter: `PRINTDS DATASET(test.data) BMARGIN(7)` The resulting number of printed lines per page, using the default PAGELEN value of 60, is 53.