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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > At the hardware level PACK ASCII and UNPACK ASCII are needed because PACK and UNPACK convert from and to EBCDIC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
