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Using LIST Instead of RDF

LIST is useful for producing bare information quickly, for single line reports, and for producing reports on printers that require printer control characters such as channel skips in the first position of the line. RDF does not support such printers. However, you should use RDF to generate most reports since it provides automatic formatting and summary facilities that are unavailable using the LIST statement. In addition, although LIST PANEL does provide a way of formatting LIST output, it is not as efficient as generating formatted output using an RDF report definition.