> It's probably because the notations ".A" and ".B" represent the DBCS > codings for those double-byte characters, not the EBCDIC characters "." > and "A".
Makes sense. If using a true DBCS terminal we'd probably see a DBCS "A" in the source rather than ".A" > If you can enter data in hex, try assembling G'42C142C2' (where I wrote > the hex representations of each byte) -- this is the DBCS representation > of "AB". Apparently, it's also necessary to code the Shift-In, Shift out characters as "0E" and "0F" rather than "<" and ">". With "<" and ">" I still get the error, but when I use "0E" and "0F" the error goes away. DBCS1 DC G' A B C ' CCCEF4CC4C704C4C4C07444 4232104307DE212223FD000 ----------------------- DBCS2 DC GL10' A B C ' CCCEF4CC4CDFF704C4C4C07 4232204307310DE212223FD ----------------------- DBCS3 DC GL4' A B C ' CCCEF4CC4CDF704C4C4C074 423230430734DE212223FD0 See also http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/asmr1020/FRONT_1.7 and http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/asmr1020/8.3.3.3
