On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:16:55 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: > >>We used to do a lot of that. NFS has liberated us from a lot of file >>shuffling -- files >>appear alike on our desktops and on z/OS. We discarded our STC. ISPF 3.17 is >>your friend. > >How do you handle ASCII/ISO-xxxx - EBCDIC between platforms and the >different ways of storing information? > For most purposes, NFS ISO8859-1<->IBM-1047 suffices. In some cases, we have dual mountpoints, with and without translation. In other cases, we pipe through iconv. Likewise, for legacy data sets we can bootleg a translation option in the pathname.
"Different ways"? Isn't it all magnetic domains in ferrite? (We don't use paper tape.) For BSAM/QSAM, the JCL/BPXWDYN FILEDATA option is useful. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
