The /DELIMITER/ packet can be used to change the column delimiter used in the output reports from Smkreport. The default delimiter is a semicolon (;). You can change the delimiter to any single-character value to suit your needs, although using a space as a delimiter may result in slightly misformatted reports. Some reasons to change the delimiter from the default are:
You are reporting “BY SOURCE” and including the source name, and it has semicolons included in one or more of the names. This would prevent those records in the output report from being read into another program using semicolon as the delimeter.
Software you want to use to read the Smkreport output report does not support semi-colons for delimiters.
You prefer a different appearance in the reports; you can select another delimiter that does not conflict with other fields in your report.
The syntax of this instruction is the following:
/DELIMITER/ ,
This example results in a comma (,) being used as the delimiter for columns of any results from /CREATE REPORT/ instructions
that followed this instruction in the REPCONFIG file.