Gil, Take a look at use of CCSID. It provides more options than the OPTCD=Q http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2b661/12.9? SHELF=EZ2ZO10H.bks&DT=20060125042105
Mike Wood RMM Development On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:25:35 -0700, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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
