I've searched the forum but didn't find anything.

I've started using the Synonym Editor to work with masters (editing existing ones and creating new ones, including ones with cluster JOINs) more and more lately because I like using Model View, etc. etc. Most of these masters are for mainframe FOCUS and I'm transferring them back and forth between my PC and the mainframe with FTP.

Is there anyway, short of manually editing the master's text in a text editor, of making sure that all text inside the masters stays within 80 characters in width? Since I'm transferring a lot of these masters back to PDS's on the mainframe, I'm occasionally finding that I'm losing a few characters in a few long lines in the master.

For example, I created a DEFINE field in Synonym Editor and it create this line in the master which goes out to position 89:

 
    DEFINE C_ACCT_KEY/A31  WITH DDA.ACCT_KEY=OVRLAY(ACCT_KEY, 31, 'CAA', 3, 6, 'A31'); $

Obviously the last 9 characters got chopped off when I FTP'd the master to a member in my PDS on the mainframe. 80 characters is the standard member width for PDS members in the PDS's I'm using on our mainframe.

I'm just wondering if maybe there's an option somewhere in Dev Studio that can force the text to not go past 80 characters in width, either in Synonym Editor or the built-in Text Editor. I looked around but didn't find anything. I was just hoping to avoid having to go in and manually edit the master text.

Thanks.

I don't know of any native setting in Focus to ensure that.

So I would scan them before transmission, using an edit macro to locate long lines and edit them manually. For Kedit:

* longlines.kex
  "zone 81 *"
  "all ^ blank"
 if rc<>0 then "quit"
  "zone 1 *"

Or, upload them to a PDS with a larger lrecl, scan the members in xedit with a rexx macro to locate lines over 80 (it will be less succinct than the above); revise as needed, and them move to your F 80.

Try using an editor on the pc that will lock the width. I have used SPF/PC before.