SHOWCC and SHOWPAGE Commands

There are two additional commands related to report viewing: SHOWCC and SHOWPAGE.

Print reports contain various print control characters that give directions to the printer during report printing. Print control characters are not part of the actual report and do not appear on the printed report.

Because most users are not interested in seeing print control characters, they are generally hidden during report viewing. However, it is possible to display them by entering the command SHOWCC in the COMMAND field of the Report Viewing screen.

Page break indicators and page control characters are also not normally visible, but can be displayed by entering the command SHOWPAGE.

Re-entering the command hides the special characters.

Type =X in the COMMAND field and press Enter to exit the Online Viewing facility and return to your normal operating environment.