Bundle banners

You can include an optional banner page at each level within a bundle as follows:

Bundle banner - A bundle banner applies to the entire report bundle. You can link only one bundle banner to a bundle definition. This banner will be displayed at the beginning or end of the bundle or in both locations, depending on the banner type (heading, trailing, or both) that you specify in the banner definition
Bundle recipient banner - A bundle recipient banner (or recipient banner) applies to an individual bundle recipient. You can link a single recipient banner to each bundle recipient. A recipient banner will be displayed at the beginning or end of the recipient's package of reports or in both locations.
Report banner - A report banner applies to an individual report. To each bundle report, you can link a single report banner. A report banner will be displayed at the beginning or end of a bundle report or in both locations.

The banners for bundles are defined in the same manner as non-bundle banners. You must specify the banner contents in a PDS member, and define the banner member to Output Manager to make it available for use. You differentiate among these banner types by linking the banner definitions to different levels in the bundle definition and by specifying banner content that is appropriate for the level. For information about defining banners, see Banner pages in Print configuration.

In a banner member (the PDS member that contains the banner contents), you can include the following optional items:

Variables that represent information to be inserted into the banner during print processing (for example, details from a recipient ID that aid in delivering bundle reports to the recipient). For descriptions of banner variables, see Banner page variables.
The /BEGSEP and /ENDSEP tags. These tags enable you to divide the content in a banner member into a heading section and a trailing section. The syntax is:
```
/BEGSEP
heading banner content
/ENDSEP
trailing banner content
```
If you specify the banner type of Both in the banner definition but do not include these tags in the banner member, the same content will be printed at the beginning and end of the bundle component to which the banner applies.

You can also define optional special instructions to be inserted into a banner during print processing. These instructions are stored as part of the bundle definition, bundle recipient definition, or report definition. To indicate where the special instructions are to be inserted, you must specify the &INSTnnnn variable in the banner member.

When a bundle instance is printed or reprinted, Output Manager inserts the appropriate banner pages into the bundle output stream, regardless of whether the bundle is being printed to a printer or data set. For more information about the position of banners in bundle output, see Hierarchical structure of bundle output.