x'40' are rare in ASCII as @, frequent in EBCDIC as blank. On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
> No idea but that isn't within the scope of what we're doing now. Just > trying to get it to STOP the bogus tagging! > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 2:57 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: USS file tagging question > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:22:36 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > > >I'm trying to NOT have files that *are* EBCDIC tagged wrong, so FTP > works. If I FTP that "banana" file, I get untranslated EBCDIC. If I say > TYPE E, I get an error saying "Dude, that's ASCII, use ASCII". > > > >This manifested with Python scripts in our automation that did FTPs and > got errors saying "record too long" from larger files, presumably because > it was transferring as ASCII/binary and thus looking for linends that just > aren't there in the EBCDIC data. > > > Is it time to give up on EBCDIC? understand that ISVs (Rocket?) > (Dovetail?) rely on compiling in Enhanced ASCII mode and autoconversion. > > How does tagging play with DSFS? I find scant mention of tags in the lone > DSFS manual. Might tagging employ the Utility Fine System? > > Where's the DSFS User's guide? > > Is there a a way to implicitly tag Classic data sets? Spool data sets? > Are they presumed 1047? 500? 037? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
