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//*FORMAT JES3 Control Statement

CA View does not directly support the //*FORMAT JES3 control statement because the parameters on the statement are kept on the JES3 spool volume and are not available to CA View. Instead, CA View obtains the print attributes for a report from the internal representation of the DD and OUTPUT JCL statements (that is, from the JFCB, SIOT, and SWB control blocks).

Note: Although CA View does not use the //*FORMAT control statement, JES3 can still apply the statement to a report DD statement that CA View dynamically allocates. Any nonspecific //*FORMAT statement (for example, the //*FORMAT statement contains DDNAME=) is applied; however, only those parameters not specified by CA View to dynamically allocate the DD statement are used. However, it is unlikely, that any specific //*FORMAT statement (for example, the //*FORMAT statement contains DDNAME=ddname) is applied, because the operating system generates the DDNAME of the dynamically allocated DD statement.