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the code i am reviewing is printing the carriage control instead of advancing the line.where do i check for solving this error.where is the control character defined?can somebody help with this

Show your code (the parts that declare the datasets and records) and JCL (use the code tags). Carriage control characters are byte 1 of line as you woud have discovered if you had bothered to actually read the other topic that you posted to.

Do not ask questions via private messages. No one is asking you to show data just the SELECT/ASSIGN and the related JCL. You can obfuscate any dataset names.

the code i am reviewing is printing the carriage control instead of advancing the line.

What kind of printer? What does the DD look like for the file you are printing to?

Hi Robert ,
The dd statement looks like this..well dlbl actually since it is in z/vm

dlbl xxxx,'filename',,VSAM,CAT=yyyy

That looks like your input dataset (not file). What about the information for your output DD as requested by Robert and the COBOL code for declaring the output as requested by me?