Gil, Thanks for the URL. I totally misunderstood what that #pragma did. For some reason, I thought it set the CCSID for the subsequent input source file. Just stupid, I guess.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 12:16:49 -0500, Denis Gäbler wrote: > > you can do that very easily, with pragma convert in z/OS and z/VM: > > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSB27U_6.2.0/com.ibm.zos.r12.cbclx01/zos_pragma_convert.htm > > Or, equivalently: > > > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.cbclx01/zos_pragma_convert.htm > > ... where I read: > > The following are not converted: > > A string or character constant specified in hexadecimal or octal > escape sequence format > (because it represents the value of the desired character on > output). > > That could be an adverse design choice. For example in ported source > code if the programmer has specified 0xA0, the intent was more likely > than the EBCDIC 0xA0 code point. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
