Gil, That would interesting if a 'DD SYSOUT' could do it, hmmm, I think the issue I saw was related to an older PC code page, my guts keep telling this. Guys, I appreciate what you said I want to dig a tad I know there are Unicode APIs ...
Regards, Scott On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu <javascript:;> 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