CA Ideal Commands › DEFINE OUTPUT DESTINATION SYSTEM Command

DEFINE OUTPUT DESTINATION SYSTEM Command

The DEFINE OUTPUT DESTINATION SYSTEM command establishes the output destination of a system printer (your local printer). You can define a system type output destination to CA Ideal that is actually a data set. You can direct CA Ideal reports to that data set through the ASSIGN REPORT command in a batch run. For example:

...
//arpt  DD DSN=site.dataset.b1330,DISP=OLD
Syntax//SYSIN *
ASSIGN REPORT arpt TO DEST SYS b1330
RUN apgm
...

B1330 is defined to CA Ideal as a SYStem OUTput DESTination with a blocksize specified.

This command has the following format:

DEFINE OUTPUT DESTINATION SYSTEM name [BLKSIZE nnnnn]