Marking columns

If you need to know what screen column you are in while you are typing information, you can get a line displayed that marks where the columns are. To see the column identification line, enter the word "cols" in the line number where you want the column identification line to appear.

The line that appears marks each column with a dash and each group of ten columns with a digit. Thus the 1, 2, 3, and so on, stand for 10, 20, and 30. The "+" indicates the halfway mark between digits and stands for 5, 15, 25, and so on.

EDIT ---- PREFIX.PARTS.DATA  ----------------------------------- COLUMNS 001 072
COMMAND ===>                                                    SCROLL ===> HALF
****** ************************ TOP OF DATA ************************************
000001  PART NUMBER     CURRENT INVENTORY     COST PER PART
=COLS> ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7--
000002     BPE238              4                 26.19
000003     BPE459             12                  5.19
000004
000005     JTE115             36                  6.14
000006
000007     STP005             61                 34.50
000008     STP010             20                 68.25
000009     STP015             99                 14.32
000010
000011     RDE666             12                 22.49
000012     RDE777            131                  2.40
000013     RDE888              6                  1.98
000014     RDE999             92                  6.94
****** *********************** BOTTOM OF DATA **********************************

When you want the column identification line to disappear, enter a d (delete) on top of the =COLS> symbol at the left, or enter the RESET command on the COMMAND line. The RESET command negates an active panel command.

Exercise
Display the contents of a data set in an edit session and enter the COLS line command. To remove the column identification line, type `d` on top of =COLS> where the line number is typically displayed.