On Tuesday, 09/15/2020 at 09:49 GMT, Glenn Knickerbocker 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Somebody pointed out today that a mass purge of Wikipedia EBCDIC code
> page articles was done in July (with a move to Wikibooks begun but not
> finished).  For the most part, the objection was that they simply
> reproduced information from primary sources.  037-2 seems like an
> exception, unacknowledged by the primary sources until the Author's
> Edition info made it into the z/VM 6.4 doc.  Any Wikipedians here agree
> that 037-2 deserves an article, and know where to find more references
> for it than I do?
>
> >
> 
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> Google Groups has some mentions on the ASSEMBLER-LIST LISTSERV archived.
> I'm wondering if there's published discussion from SHARE that could
> fill in more.

"The real 3279 APL codepage, as used by C/370. This codepage is
very close to 1047, except that the caret and the not sign are
inverted. Codepage 37-2 is not recognised by IBM, even
though SHARE have repeatedly pointed out its de facto existence."

I'm a bit confused, as the APL code page is 293, which is code page 037 
overlaid with codepage 310 (APL/TN print train).  This is what you get 
when you SET APL ON in CMS and what is documented (and shown) in the 3270 
APL feature manual as well as the APL manual.  (You must have base code 
page 037 configured in your emulator to see 293 with full fidelity.)

37-2 sounds like something more akin to code page 924.  I've been using it 
for years, as the square brackets are where the C compilers want them 
rather than where the TN print train put them.

You can see Code page 924 at 
http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/cp924.jpg  (that's XEDIT with SET 
APL OFF and SET TEXT OFF)

I've been trying to stamp out non-standard code pages since the late 1990s 
when I did Euro enablement for VM TCP/IP.  That's when I added nearly 200 
EBCDIC-ASCII translation tables (TCPXLATE/TCPXLBIN files).

Alan Altmark

Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
IBM Systems Lab Services
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