Yeah, if you move non-mainstream characters around by FTP, 3270 file transfer, etc., you may get some interesting translation surprises from time to time.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx and hex data strings On 27 October 2016 at 12:56, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote: > What I am trying to reference a comment block in a rexx program. The > SOURCELLNIE() function does work, including if program is compiled. > Still have a problem with some odd number of '/*' or '*/' that may be > included in the text, but I can manage that by replacing it the > another pair of characters. You might do better to safely encode the binary (hex) data using something like BASE64. This is easy, though it does enlarge the data by a factor of 1.3... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
