On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 19:02:15 +0000, Don Williams wrote:
>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.
>
OK. I see:
z/OS 2.1.0>z/OS MVS>z/OS MVS JCL Reference>DD statement>CCSID parameter
z/OS MVS JCL Reference
SA23-1385-00
...
Purpose
You can request the access method to convert data between the coded
character set identifier (CCSID) specified on the JOB or EXEC statement and the
CCSID specified on the DD statement. ...
Yaaay! But:
Data conversion is supported on access to ISO/ANSI Version 4 tapes ...
I miss the word "only", but I suspect they mean "only" somewhere.
... using access methods BSAM or QSAM, but not using EXCP.
Who cares!?
And in (e.g.):
z/OS 1.13.0>z/OS UNIX System Services>z/OS Using REXX and z/OS UNIX System
Services>The syscall commands>Syscall command descriptions>chattr
z/OS Using REXX and z/OS UNIX System Services
SA22-7806-14
...
ST_FILEFMT Format of the file. To specify the format, you can specify a
numeric value (see REXX predefined variables) or one of the following
predefined variables used to derive the appropriate numeric value:
S_FFBINARY
Binary data
S_FFCR
Text data delimited by a carriage return character
S_FFCRLF
Text data delimited by carriage return and line feed characters
S_FFCRNL
A text file with lines delimited by carriage-return and newline
characters.
S_FFLF
Text data delimited by a line feed character
S_FFLFCR
Text data delimited by a line feed and carriage return characters
S_FFNA
Text data with the file format not specified
S_FFNL
Text data delimited by a newline character
S_FFRECORD
File data consisting of records with prefixes. The record prefix
contains
the length of the record that follows.
...
Of these 9 options, only 3 are supported by the DD FILEDATA operand:
RECORD, BINARY, and NL (spelled "TEXT" on the DD statement).
The others should be supported likewise.
-- gil
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