On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Tom Marchant wrote:
>
> >Can I get z/OS messages to be issued in Unicode?
>
> And having Bookmanager bookies written in all those codepages?
>
> >I could probably ask many more questions like these.
> >Unless the answer to all of these is "yes", your "absolutely no
> requirement to use" is false.
>
> True.
>
>
> Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> >I'm waiting for Timothy's answer and apologia.
>
> Or try test TRT for packed / unpacked values. Just remember ASCII numbers
> (packed) are in hex x'30 - x'3F' and EBCDIC are in x'F0' - x'F9'.
>
> >And even there I see biases in string constants coded in programs.
> >HLASM has EBCDIC self-defining terms, but not ASCII self-defining terms.
>
> So I see it too after RTFM. Good catch.
>
>
> >IEBGENER can probably deal with Unicode data set content, but not Unicode
> data set names.
>
> or try: OCOPY '/SYSTEM/tmp/blahblah.txt'   HLQ.DSN.NAME
>
> where you specify your folders/filename in Unicode.
>
> I will not go on, especially if you add FTP (transfers *with* translation
> from codepages) in this fray...
>
> Groete / Greetings
> Elardus Engelbrecht
>
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At the hardware level PACK ASCII and UNPACK ASCII are needed because PACK
and UNPACK convert from and to EBCDIC.

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