With this session parameter, you can suppress the printing of empty lines
generated by a DISPLAY or
WRITE statement.
| Possible settings | ON |
A line resulting from a DISPLAY or
WRITE statement which
contains all blank values will not be printed.
This setting is particularly useful when displaying arrays (for example, multiple-value fields or fields contained within a periodic group) to avoid printing a large number of empty lines. |
|---|---|---|
OFF |
Empty line suppression is disabled. | |
| Default setting | OFF |
|
| Specification within session | yes | |
| Applicable statements: | ||
| Applicable command: | none |
To achieve empty suppression for numeric values, the field must be
specified with ZP=OFF and ES=ON in order to have null
values printed as blanks. See also the session parameters
IS and
ZP.
DISPLAY (ES=ON) NAME CITY
See also Parameters to Influence the Output of Fields in the Programming Guide.
