Time for me to crawl back into my cave and not make postings off the cuff, without thing thinking them through.
=============================================== Wayne Driscoll Omegamon DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com =============================================== "Chase, John" <[email protected]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 12/19/2008 06:35 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Dash in Cataloged Data Set Name (Was: ISPF and long lines) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll > > Except that an UNPK would leave the field 0C, not C0, so this sounds > like an old programmers tale to me. No, UNPK "swaps" the nybbles of the rightmost byte. P'0' = X'0C'; UNPK makes it X'C0'. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

