If you are using z/OS prior to 1.9, you can use some handy shell scripts that we built for handling the conversion. Included in these is "aobrowse", which can be used from an OMVS session.
See the "updated atools package" download from: http://dovetail.com/downloads/jzos/index.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >Neal Eckhardt wrote: > >> I want to browse a UNIX file in ISPF and have the characters display as > >> ASCII characters, not EBCDIC. I thought I had done this before about > half > >> a decade ago, but I can't seem to find out how I did this. What am I > >> missing, or is my memory failing me? I'm usually pretty good remembering > >> something when I see something and say "COOL" to myself. > >> > >> I can browse the file in the ISPF shell, it's the translation part I'm > >> missing. > >> > >> Neal > >> > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:37:24 -0400, Mark Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >Under zOS 1.9 a DIS ASCII command on the ISPF BROWSE command line should > >work if you have UNICODE active. > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:36:47 -0700, Edward Jaffe > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >In VIEW or EDIT, type the "SOURCE ASCII" command. To return to EBCDIC > >mode, type "RESET SOURCE". > > > > In case the OP isn't at 1.9, I think the display by CCSID (or acronyms like > UTF8 / ASCII) has been around since z/OS 1.7. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > z/OS Systems Programming expert at > http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: > http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html<http://home.flash.net/%7Emzelden/mvsutil.html> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
