Guys, We use it all the from ASCII to ebcdic using one of the supplied tcpip library modules works great..also from ebcdic to ASCII
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 22, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:30 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >> This may be another weird desire on my part. But I'm wondering why IBM does >> not enhance the QSAM and BSAM access methods to support the OPTCD=Q and >> CCSID= parameters on the DD statememt to work with datasets on media other >> than tape. Especially z/OS UNIX files. There are times when I would really >> like to keep some data in z/OS UNIX files using the ISO8859-1 code page. >> This works fairly well with z/OS UNIX commands when I use the chtag and >> extattr commands to properly tag the files. It would be really helpful to me >> if I could then read those files into standard legacy applications using >> PATH=...,FILEDATA=TEXT,RECFM=..,LRECL=..,CCSID=819 on the DD. There must be >> some sort of code in QSAM and BSAM already since you can read ASCII tapes >> using DCB=OPTCD=Q. Of course, I don't know how "creaky" that code is. I >> think that IBM avoids touching some old parts of z/OS just out of fear. >> > OPTCD=Q uses the dreadful IGC0010C 7-bit translation table. > Now, if you wanted (as you suggest) something like FTP's > sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) facility, that might be > meaningful. > > And, IIRC, FTP requires that one of the CPs be EBCDIC and the > other ASCII (-like). Why not translate between two EBCDIC > pages, such as 037<->1047, or even ISO8859-1<->UTF-8? > (All things that iconv() (already supplied by IBM) does). > > (I almost forgot -- I hate EBCDIC!) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
