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Thank you for submitting your Request For Enhancement. After evaluating your submission, the decision at this time is to not provide this support.
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a “nice to have” low priority feature.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
This RFE's Headline was changed after submission to reflect the headline of an internal request we were already considering, but will now track here.
Hi Jeff ... I'm sorry that I am unable to provide a link to the PMR but can tell you that the cause of the small font on the print screen is due to how the screen is defined in DDS. In this case, the DDS defines the display size as 27x132 ( DSPSIZ(27 132 *DS4) ). If the screen were defined as 24x80, the font would be larger. In this instance, the screen size is defined as 27x132 but only 80 characters of the screen are used so it is not obvious to the user that the screen is any wider than 80 columns. However, the print screen function is using the display size and adjusting the font size accordingly to fit the screen on the page without any truncation. Thus, a work around would be to change the DDS for the display to be 24x80.
Attachment (Description): This document shows the exact panels in questions and exactly what is missing
IBM has received this requirement and is evaluating it. A response will be provided when evaluation is complete.
I don't see the same behavior as you reported. My local screen print function prints the screen using the top half of an 8 1/2 x 11 page using a very readable monspaced, serif font. I could not access your PMR for the details. Can you provide a link to it?