REPRO?

On Saturday, December 12, 2020, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> CCSID would determine which characters were treated as valid. I would not
> expect IDCAMS to second guess the user's InfoPrint parameters.
>
> Ideally there should be a common print validation service and every
> utility would have a parameter to pass it.
>
> As long as the utilities attempt to redact "unprintable" data, they should
> allow the user to control that redaction, regardless of how many other
> places have a CCSID option. Especially a CCSID parameter documented as
> being applicable only to tape.
>
> How is DASD an excuse for translating characters that the user considers
> valid to periods? I don't care if it's legacy DASD, SYSOUT or Unix path,
> the user should be able to control the translation.
>
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>
> ________________________________________
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf
> of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 7:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Silly question - can one force IDCAMS PRINT to show printable
> lower case characters?
>
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:40:52 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> >I might believe lost in the world of 3211; the 3211 is older than IDCAMS.
> Shirley it's time to add a CCSID operand.
> >
> What would CCSID do?  What implementation do you envision?
> Would it interface to InfoPrint?  Shouldn't every utility have one?
> But that's redundant; it should be an option on DD SYSOUT.
> DD, EXEC, and JOB already have a CCSID option.  Is that enough?
>
> And if SYSPRINT is DASD, it should just pass the data unfiltered.
>
> BitSavers reinforces my conjecture.  Something you don't want in a
> production job:
>     http://secure-web.cisco.com/1WhhAX4GjxhomdW3zmNfgT472Yr6nQ
> hRZO040EgqFcFvPBMsDPxogfvqMO12NQs36E2Lf8gEmkDkccMSTqwEn22FDx
> fabOAdb9sSzzpmB-xLwJnTd8s0I4b9wVTIf0YIGlbUnRiA
> zzGGuj70uPltjgBdpcAQD3hM1RWi8kVLFAnzpfZI1-qtzSoC0tniJheFaqIvC82btQ5mIONu
> QYT_xpuDWMvGGdUjRSGL9FImMDx_75jgCFL2ZMBBktTpOE9u1wCgOPfs_
> 9yaGHJ-C-WuKzYLleg8tqOQOg-XcMKs15NG3euVyj0GQw2OiD2ueoIZW
> J7M0XyKZpOPrBTvXbLGr9WXF93UHmZ3y5NjnJZpxcjkFG8_3iC6cs8Jn3Ud4f-
> CCsiRjoKzqaHZ7tXHzsMIikG1gcxJ0BUwzivOPmilFUZ7RuB7rHgBZdogbSO
> d9bt9X/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bitsavers.org%2Fpdf%2Fibm%
> 2F1403%2FGA24-3073-8_1403_printer.pdf
>
> Data Check (Sense Bit 4)
> Data check indicates that a code in a data record sent to the printer does
> not match a code in the Universal Character
> Set (UCS) feature storage. Printing does not occur in the
> print position to which the unmatching code applies. The entire line
> (except for the data check position) OIr only a portion of the line may be
> printed. Therefore, the last
> printed line may contain erroneous data and/or an incomplete record. Data
> check usually indicates that the UCS storage
> was improperly loaded or that a data record code (other than blank or
> null) does not compare to any code in the UCS storage.
> Provide an operator message and exit from this error- recovery procedure.
> The operator should then:
> 1. Accept the record and indicate that the application
> program is to proceed without further retry of the
> command, or
> 2. Restart the application program from a logical
> point.
> If the error persists, a call should be made to a service
> representative.
>
> -- gil
>
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