Instead of, or in addition to, using the BTEQ SUPPRESS command, use the SKIPLINE and SKIPDOUBLE commands to insert one or two blank lines in a report whenever the value of a specified column changes.
Example – SKIPLINE or SKIPDOUBLE
Adding a BTEQ SKIPLINE command to the previous example produces the example report shown below:
.SET SKIPLINE ON 1 .SET SUPPRESS ON 1 select deptno, name from employee where deptno in (100, 300) order by deptno;
Example report:
DeptNo Name ------ ----------- 100 Chin M Greene W Moffit H Peterson J 300 Russell S Phan A Leidner P
Similarly, using a SKIPDOUBLE command adds two blank lines, and using both SKIPLINE and SKIPDOUBLE adds three.