Rob and Gil, I found the problem we are using an IBM TBL EZACICTR which doesnt support CP 437, duh ....
I have a bigger question, if we wanted to support Unicode (yeah ugh), how do I know what CCSIDS to support ? For example we go from EBCDIC on z/OS to ASCII and from ASCII to EBCDIC. Do I some how have to tell the target what the sending CCSID is ? BTW, a big ty ..too Scott On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Rob Schramm <rob.schr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you fill in the servers? Like AIX, AS400 etc etc > > Rob > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016, 3:45 PM Paul Gilmartin < > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:32:27 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: > > > > > >I need some assistance in troubleshooting a codepage issue . > > >I have a server sending ascii data using codepage 850 to another server > > >running codepage 437. Then the message is sent to z/OS ..The character > in > > >question is a '~' which is x'7E'..I looked at both character maps and > > since > > >x'7E' is a ascii 126 will this character not be translated from server > to > > >server ? If so we use codepage 037 to convert ascii to ebcdic ...We are > > >actually seeing the tilde on z/OS.. > > > > > Aaaarrrgggh! > > > > (But is the tilde (what code point in what CCSID?) not what you want?) > > > > Can you do *all* the transfers in binary until you get to z/OS, then use > > iconv > > for the final conversion? > > > > Principle of minal munging: that would get you a pristine copy on z/OS > that > > you can inspect/dump/experiment with and control the final conversion > > > > And you'll still have the <CR><LF> nuisance to deal with. > > > > All I know is what I can read on: > > > > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAL2T_8.1.0/com.ibm.cics.tx.doc/reference/r_code_pg_sprt.html > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > -- > > Rob Schramm > The Art of Mainframe, Inc > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
