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Control Break Report Processing

Individual pages within a data set are separated to produce unique reports.

Specifications are defined in the report definition attributes to identify the field that invokes the separator. These specifications are referred to as control break identification. When the contents of the defined control break field changes, a separator is printed between pages and processing continues until the contents change again.

Note: Reports of type CNTL honor the STKMODE initialization parameter. Therefore, if STKMODE= RECORD, the RECORD that contains the field defined is compared. If STKMODE=LINE, the LINE is selected for comparison in the print position as it appears on a page. If STKMODE is defined as LINE, carriage control is honored.