Delete form-feed option

When you specify an end-of-file rule, you can also specify whether you want NetSpool to delete form-feed controls that occur in the input data stream before writing the output data set on the JES spool. Deleting form-feed controls lets you remove blank pages that might print before or after the data. You can specify which form-feed controls NetSpool is to delete:

• Leading form-feed controls: NetSpool deletes the form-feed control at the beginning of the output data set.
• Trailing form-feed controls: NetSpool deletes the form-feed control at the end of the output data set.
• Both leading and trailing form-feed controls: NetSpool deletes the form-feed control both at the beginning and the end of the output data set.

These considerations apply when you delete trailing form-feed controls:

• For LU type 1 sessions, the form-feed control in the last RU is deleted. If the end-of-session rule is selected, form-feed controls at the end of a data set are not deleted.
• For LU types 0 and 3 sessions, the form-feed control in the page built by the last RU chain is deleted. However, for LU type 3, if the end-of-bracket rule is selected and the RU that ends the bracket is a null single element chain, the form-feed control from the prior chain is deleted.