Phil, I couldn't agree more. It's by far the most complicated, poorly documented thing that I've seen IBM do in many many years.
BTW, the LE C interface headers for "Enhanced Ascii" are in /usr/include/_Nascii.h. "Sounds like" the perfect name, which is why I exclusively refer to "Enhanced ASCII" as NASCII . Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Aug 21, 2025, at 4:53 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: > I can't disagree--at least how it's been implemented, where it's way too > complicated and unintuitive. You'd think I could ask, "What gets tagged and > why?" and easily say "Don't do that". Compiled into the shell?! That's insane > IMHO. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Andrew Rowley > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 7:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: USS file tagging question > > On 21/08/2025 7:59 am, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > USS Filesystems, Tagging and AUTOCVT is a challenge . Just when I think > > I’ve got it down it’s like stepping on the tail of a snake. > > I think file tagging and auto conversion has turned out to be a mistake. > It sounds good in theory, but every product seems to have a slightly > different idea about what it means and how it works. There are also > unintended side effects. The result is that things don't work as expected a > lot of the time, particularly if more than one product is involved. > > -- > Andrew Rowley > Black Hill Software > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
