My site prohibits FTP and I have no control over it. My user works for some government agency and I have no idea what the environment is. But I know that she's tried: quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1)
because it was my first suggestion, before I'd posted the question in the forum. However that did not help! I will present all the knowledge that I've acquired so far, and the questions herein, and let her tinker with her environment. The conversion of circumflex to logical not and vice verse is usually due to use of IBM-037 where your target is really IBM-1047 or vice verse and my package has the means to deal with it. It was the comma that puzzled me and you've helped me resolved (suggesting that x'AC' is chopped to x'2C')... thank you again. Ze'ev Atlas ________________________________ From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:36 AM Subject: Re: How to load logical load x'ac' On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:26:51 -0800, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: > >Actually, wc3270 (and my mainframe IND$FILE) deal with the situation correctly >(I might have implied otherwise, but I've now conducted few more tests) and >recognizes extended ASCII. It is the FTP configuration, whatever my user is >using that deal with 7 bit ASCII only and thus causes the problem. > "my user" implies a third, silent, party to this dialog. That makes it more complicated. And you say your user is using FTP, but you can't. I routinely use "quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1)" with IBM's FTP server and various clients. It's suitable for my purposes although it may translate ASCII caret to/from EBCDIC logical not. Does your mainframe system entirely prohibit FTP, or can you use it locally to experiment? ("FTP localhost" at the TSO "READY" prompt.) Do you know/are you free to disclose: o What FTP server your user has (IBM or other, perhaps CA)? o What FTP client on what platform your user has? Line-mode clients regularly accept the "quote site ..."; GUI clients may conceal the facility from presumed naive users. I hate EBCDIC! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
