HOST FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE
Setting up the form
Follow these steps to set up the basic elements of your form:
1.
Use the FORM command to specify both a unique form
name that identifies the form to the system and a
resolution.
In this example, the form name is XEROX2 and the
resolution is 300 SPI.
FORM XEROX2, RESOLUTION IS 300 SPI;
2.
Specify the physical paper size.
This example specifies U.S. letter size:
PAPER SIZE IS USLETTER;
3.
Specify the grid unit and form origin. The form origin
should coincide with variable data origin and form grid units
should correspond with the character and line spacing of
the variable data.
The example below shows the long form of the command
using FMT1 values:
GRID UNIT IS 13.6 CPI 8.1 LPI ORIGIN .18 IN .66 IN;
This example shows the short form of the command:
GRID FMT1;
You do not need to use the LANDSCAPE/PORTRAIT
command to specify page orientation and virtual page size if
you specify a predefined format in the GRID command.
4.
Specify the fonts you want to use.
In this example, you specify a large font (UN214A) for the
report title, a smaller font (UN107A) for the column
headings, and a very small font (UN104A) for the form
identifier:
FONTS UN214A, UN107A, UN104A;
When you refer to these fonts in later descriptive
commands, the first font specified (UN214A) is identified as
FONT 1, the second as FONT 2, and the third as FONT 3.
This example shows entering all of these setup commands
in their long form:
FORM XEROX2 RESOLUTION IS 300 SPI;
PAPER SIZE IS USLETTER;
GRID UNIT IS 13.6 CPI 8.1 LPI ORIGIN .18 IN .66 IN;
FONTS UN214A, UN107A, UN104A;
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HOST FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE 3.2 FOR IBM MVS CREATING FORMS