TERMINAL LINESIZE

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram TERMinal LINESize nnnOFf

Authorization

Privilege Class: G

Purpose

Use TERMINAL LINESIZE to control display screen line length.

Operands

nnn
OFf
controls allowable line length. The value you specify for nnn can be any number from one through 255. OFF specifies that the output line length is not to be adjusted by CP; in other words, CP does not split a long output line into two or more shorter ones.

Usage Notes

  1. If TERMINAL APL ON is specified, CP defines an output length of 1760 and assumes that the APL system has inserted the appropriate carriage-control characters into the output data.
  2. If LINESIZE is set too small to display one byte of data per line, CP uses the smallest value for LINESIZE that it can in order to display one byte of data per line. For instance, if LINESIZE=2 but the message to be displayed consists of mixed DBCS data, the smallest value needed to display one byte of DBCS data is 4, so this value will display that message.
  3. LINESIZE is set to the character width of the terminal when you log on or reconnect.
  4. For more information, see TERMINAL Usage Notes.