This command may be discontinued in a future release. We highly recommend that you no longer use this command. To take advantage of newer Production Reporting functionality, use the MAX‑LINES and MAX‑COLUMNS parameters of the DECLARE‑LAYOUT command.
PAGE-SIZE page_depth_num_lit page_width_num_lit
If you are printing multiple reports, you must use the PAPER-SIZE parameter of the DECLARE-LAYOUT command .
This command is used in the SETUP section only.
Specify the page_depth in lines and the page_width in columns. An average report printed on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper might have a page size of 60 lines by 80 columns. A 3 inch by 5 inch sales lead card might have a size of 18 by 50.
If the page size is not specified, the default of 62 lines by 132 columns is used.
For line printers, Production Reporting stores one complete page in a buffer before writing the page to the output file when you issue a NEW-PAGE command or when a page overflow occurs.
You could define a page to be 1 line deep and 4,000 characters wide. This could be used for writing large flat files, perhaps for copying to magnetic tape. Each time a NEW‑PAGE occurs, one record would be written. The NO-FORMFEED command in the SETUP section can be used to suppress form feed characters between pages.
Use a page width at least one character larger than the right-most position that will be written. This prevents unwanted wrapping when printing. When the last column position on a line is printed, the current position becomes the first position of the next line. This can cause confusion when using relative line positioning with the NEXT-LISTING command. Having a wider page than necessary does not waste any file space since Production Reporting trims trailing blanks on each line before writing the report file.
The size of the internal page buffer used to store a complete page in memory can be determined by multiplying the page depth by the width in the PAGE-SIZE command. For PCs, the page buffer is limited to 64K bytes. On other computers, the page buffer is limited only by the amount of memory available.