coldefs settings is for the command "bpdbjobs -report" and not for the command "bperror".
You are using the "-U" switch which creates a formatted output listing. Ty using the "-l" (little ell) switch instead, which generates an unformatted list with one entry per line. The first few fields are always in the same place/column, but if you really get deep into processing the "text" part of the report, then you'll probably need to write some custom code to break apart various fields and filter this data based on whether the reporting module is bpbrm or bptm or whatever.
I have seen (in v5.1 at least - and I've not delved too far into processing bperror output from v6.5 yet)... as I was saying, I have seen bperror report "confused" data, i.e. half lines, concatenated lines, etc - almost as if too much data was incoming in the past and has been saved in a garbled form, and there's not alot you can do about that, except to put generous lines of code in your script to attempt to filter out the bad data.
