On 2015-09-03, at 08:04, John McKown wrote: > >> Wny not DD CCSID=...,PATH=...? A field for CCSID is available in the tag. > >Right. A part and parcel of the whole package. Extend BSAM/QSAM to honour >CCSID on the JOB and DD for any input or output source, not just ASCII >tapes. > I understand the autoconversion of UNIX files is done in the kernel. And it supports only 819<->1047, but I suspect many programmers dearly desire IBM-037<->UTF-8. But how much fluff do you want to load on the kernel.
And I know of no utility that provides NL<->CRLF conversion. Hmmm. If I convert a Windows file to EBCDIC, with iconv or pax, does the CRLF become CRNL? Ugh! But BSAM/QSAM FILEDATA= ought to support all formats supported elsewhere, not just BINARY and NL (known as TEXT). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
