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What You Can Do

You can eliminate repeated occurrences of selected fields on printed output by forcing a control break on a work field that is not tied to input data.

How to Do It

1. Define a numeric work field.
2. Code the work field on a SORT parameter as a low-order sort key with a control break.
3. Code a type 7 statement that increments the control-break work field by 1. (A control break will then occur on each extract record when the value of the work field changes.)
4. Code type 8 instructions for processing the control break.