We need to customize the FCB and CHARS set to suit for our requirements, and then we quote the new FCB in CAIQPARM or JES2 output as follows. Please advise how to code CHARS.
JOBNAME JobID Owner Prty C Forms Dest FCB UCS Tot-Rec
XXXXXXXA JOB56352 XXXXXX0 112 A STD PRT2 XYZ **** 9,199
NODE PRT2,DISK1,
TCPHOST=DISK,
CLASS=0,
DRIVPRM1='DSNAME=XXXX.&FNM.PRT2.PDF,DISP=NEW',
DRIVPRM2='UNIT=3390,LRECL=9999,VOLSER=XXXXX2',
FCB=XYZ,
XFERNODE=NODE,
GROUP=2
Release : 14.0
Component : Spool
You can use a DESTID statement to force the value of the FCB and CHARS assigned to a file:
DESTID QDEST=PRT2,FFCB=xxxx,FCHARS=xxxx
Another option is to modify the JCL of the job that is creating the sysout:
//RPT OUTPUT DEST=PRT2,FCB=xxx,CHARS=yyyy
...
//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=A,OUTPUT=*.RPT
You can try CHARS in the range CR00 to CR29. For example:
DESTID QDEST=PRT2,FFCB=8,FCHARS=CR12
You can try other values for CRnn to see which value meets your needs.
The CHARS don't need to be stored in any z/OS dataset. You can find a list of possible CHARS values in the link below: