On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:20:15 -0400, Scott Ford wrote:
>
>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 ?
>
Probably. IBM's FTP gives pretty much the maximal support with the
[QUOTE] [LOC]SITE {SB|MB}DATACONN option.
Possible silly restrictions (I'm not sure):
o I don't know which CCSIDs are available. An Admin Guide may contain
instructions for supplying more.
o I don't know that UTF-8 (CP-1208) is supported.
o IIRC, conversion between two ASCII or two EBCDIC pages is not supported;
must be one of each.
o IIRC, conversion is supported only for TYPE EBCDIC, not TYPE BINARY
transfers.
o Between two z/OS systems, I don't know what happens if one specifies
conversion at both client and server. It might be possible to convert from
one EBCDIC CP to ASCII at the server, then from ASCII to a different
EBCDIC CP at the client.
Topic drift (but well within the scope of the Subject): Is it possible from
the SDSF API to determine the value coded on the JCL DD SYSOUT,CCSID=
statement? This might sometimes be useful.
-- gil
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