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BNDLMOUT, Attributes, and the First Report in a Bundle

The initialization parameter BNDLMOUT works this way:

• If you set this parameter to NO or use the default for the started task, the attributes used to print a bundle (except for carriage control attributes) are obtained from the first report in the bundle that is written.

  All the reports in the bundle are consequently printed with the same attributes.

• If you set this parameter to YES for batch bundling only, each report is printed with its own attributes except for destination and class.

Important: To accomplish this individual printing, a new DD statement is allocated and used whenever any attribute changes thereby generating several SYSOUT DD statements for the bundle.

To ensure that the SYSOUT DD statements print together, an OUTPUT JCL statement is dynamically created with the GROUPID parameter and is referenced by the DD statements.

Note: If a bundle distribution identifier is not defined in the bundle definition attributes, then the distribution identifier for the first distribution point in the bundle is used..