On 3 September 2015 at 21:25, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > In: > z/OS 2.1.0>z/OS DFSMS>z/OS DFSMS Using Data Sets>Converting Character > Sets>Coded Character Sets Sorted by CCSID > z/OS DFSMS Using Data Sets > SC23-6855-00 > > ... conspicuous by its absence is 1208/1209, UTF-8. This is a shame given the > prevalence of UTF-8 outside the mainframe enclave.
Yeah but... Once you bring UTF-8 into the picture, there's a lot more to do than a TR instruction. What happens when your record expands to the point of overflowing the block? For that matter what if it expands by just a byte, but it's V[B] and you want to then rewrite it? etc. etc. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
