This showed up on bit.listserv.ibm-main and I think it would be of general interest. This is cc-ed to the original poster including the normal IBM-MAIN boiler plate.
Clark Morris For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 01:39:07 -0800 (PST), in bit.listserv.ibm-main "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Who is responsible for this website? > >http://ccsids.net/ > >Whoever it is, I'd like to say, "Thanks!". > >From that site: > >> [for the] sake of preservation of what I feel is important information in >> the public interest.?I do not work for IBM, and have not ever worked for IBM >> as of the time of writing. > >There are files on that site that used to be published on the now-defunct IBM >Globalization site. > >I also want to thank whoever (same person?) put those files on this public FTP >site: > >http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/ > >Numerous topics in IBM Docs cite numeric character set identifiers. For >example, the z/OS 2.5 topic “Creating ISPF code page translation tables”: > >https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=dm-creating-ispf-code-page-translation-tables > >But I can't find any docs still published by IBM that describe those character >sets. So, as far as IBM-published docs are concerned, those numeric character >set identifiers are "opaque": not (or no longer) backed by IBM-published >reference tables that describe what characters are in each set. > >Am I wrong about this? Does IBM still publish this information somewhere else? >For example, can anyone point me to an ibm.com URL for the following table of >characters in the character set 697: > >http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CS00697.txt > >Graham Hannington ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
