On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:17, Bob Cronin wrote:
> We're contemplating changing the default translate table used by all our VM
> SMTP's from the ancient STANDARD table shipped with the product to an 8 bit
> table (specifically 10470819 TCPXLBIN). I know this is not strictly
> PIPE-related, but has anyone else gone through this before? Any words or
> warning (or encouragement)? Since we get a fair amount of Internet-origin
> mail relayed through our email gateway on VM, and since a sizable fraction
> of that mail is un-encoded utf-8, using STANDARD makes it impossible to
> properly preserve the text, whereas 10470819 would permit full fidelity to
> be maintained.
>
Compatibility with z/OS?
They may differ in 2 code points:
The z/OS OEMVS311 table maps:
ASCII EBCDIC
0x0A 0x15
0x85 0x25
10470819 may do (Pipelines convention):
0x0A <--> 0x25
0x85 <--> 0x15
I don't know which STANDARD does. I know that when I made
such a change privately many years ago, SMTP failed to parse
the headers properly.
-- gil
