Thanks Clark, those are good resources to know about. Definitely worth bookmarks.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Friday, February 25, 2022 4:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (fwd) Who is responsible for the ccsids.net ("Code page information") website? 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 -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
