Well, a UCS image or character arrangement table could do the folding. Are channel-connected printers still supported? Can Infoprint and PSF map CHARS and UCS to something sensible?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2025 11:35 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> Subject: Re: Is HLASM efficient WAS: Telum and SpyreWAS: Vector instruction performance External Message: Use Caution On 8/31/25 07:31, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Well, for English there's FOLD. > ... Not always: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=up-subparameter-definition> Note: JES2 and JES3 do not support the FOLD subparameter. ... It feels like decades since I encountered this deficiency. What have developers been doing in the meantime? I hope it's a replacement for JES2 and JES3. > ________________________________________ > From:Jonathan Scott > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2025 4:38 AM > ... not only a problem for Japanese users, but also for line printers and other output devices (the 1403 TN print chain was only used specifically for text printing), so I've always ensured there is some way to force upper case output, although admittedly back then that used the standard technique of OC with spaces. -- gil
