So I'm not the only person to think that options to control translation might be useful. Choice of code page would be good. Ability to exclude BDW/RDW from translation would be nice too.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:16 PM John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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! > > > > Yes, it does. so you must do something like: > > iconv -f iso8859-1 -t ibm-1047 <windows.binary.file | tr -d '\r' > >windows.ebcdic.file > > > > > > > But BSAM/QSAM FILEDATA= ought to support all formats supported > > elsewhere, not just BINARY and NL (known as TEXT). > > > > Agreed. But I don't know an _existing_ JCL keyword which can be > "perverted" to do this. I wanted to extend CCSID simply for BSAM/QSAM "auto > conversion" from one CCSID to another. Not just "ASCII <-> EBCDIC" > conversion, but even something like CP-037 <-> IBM-1047. Or any other > conversion supported by z/OS Unicode System Services. I didn't intend this > to be a z/OS UNIX kernel function, but an access method function within (I > think) BSAM itself (which should propagate to QSAM since I think (hope?) > that QSAM is just a layer over BSAM). > > > > > > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > -- > > Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a > restore is attempted. > > Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. > > He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. > > 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
