No. Code points can be expressed in hex; characters cannot. What is 'D0'X? Without knowing the code page, no answer is possible.
This is not limited to EBCDIC on z; in the PC world, there are two different encodings for logical Not, which is an issue for older implemntations of Rexx; I believe that all of the newest versions recognize both 'AA'X and 'AC'X. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Bridges <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stupid JCL question Just to be pedantic, aren't ~all~ characters hex characters? That is, they can be expressed in hex. I suppose (but I'm not sure) that "non-hex character" is intended to mean a character that can be expressed directly, eg a space can be expressed as '40'x or as ' '. Whereas a tab character in EBCDIC needs to show up as '05'x; there's no way to insert it into my data with the <Tab> character. ('05'x? Yeah, I think that’s right.) --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* ...the director and the writers keep changing the script. The actors will do a scene, and the director will say, "OK, that was perfect, but this time, Bob, instead of saying 'What's for dinner?' you say, 'Wait a minute! Benzene is actually a hydrocarbon!' And say it with a Norwegian accent. Also, we think maybe your character should have no arms." -Dave Barry, describing his acting debut in "Dave's World" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 15:48 A likely offender is instream NETDATA, which could have any character, even non-hex in any position. Most characters are non-hex. --- On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:30:03 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: >Oh has that come back to byte people!! (data stream(s) having any hex >character in any position). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
