On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:49:20 +0000, Farley, Peter \ wrote:

>I am trying to copy a regular z/OS file consisting of RECFM=VBA,LRECL=8196 
>text records (CCSID IBM1047) into a Unix file converted to CCSID ISO8859-1 
>like this:
>
>cp -O c=ISO8859-1 "//'TSOUSER.DATA.FILE'" /u/tsouser/DATAFILE.txt
>    ...
What does cp purport to do with Skip-to-Channel control codes?

>Sometimes this works, sometimes it does not, and I cannot figure out what is 
>different when it does not work.  When it fails, I just get the IBM1047 
>character data in the Unix file with no line endings.
>
>Environment variable settings are:
>
>_BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON
>_CEE_RUNOPTS='FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)'
>_TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt
>_TAG_REDIR_IN=txt
>_TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt
>
>Am I forced to use an "iconv" here after using "cp" without using the "-O 
>-c=ISO8859-1" option?  Is the "A" in RECFM=VBA messing me up?  It is easily 
>possible for me to create the VBA file as VB instead, but do I need to do that?

-- 
gil

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