In a recent note, Mark H. Young said: > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:01:07 -0600 > > Yes, LABEL=(AL) is for ANSI labels, but not used if it's an non-labeled or > unlabeled tape. The DCB=OPTCD=Q is required in IBM JCL (especially if > it's NL), when bringing across a tape from a foreign NON-IBM system (like > UNIX, UNISYS, etc). This tells IBM's OS to translate from ASCII to EBCDIC, > as 'other' systems write in ASCII. > Just my 2 cents worth.....Mark > Yes, but ... The translation table used by OPTCD=Q (IGC0010C, IIRC) is woefully inadequate; I'd call it just plain wrong. Look at what it does with the brackets. Is there any EBCDIC code page that has brackets at the code points to which OPTCD=Q maps them?
Realistically, along with OPTCD=Q, the user should be allowed to specify a code page pair, as with all modern translation utilities. I'd choose ISO8859-1 <--> IBM-1047. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
