On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:59:16 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >Cross posting to ISPF and IBM Main > ISPF-L doesn't seem to work very well nowadays.
>I have data that comes from a server to the mf. It is a plain text report but >has x'8b' to indicate Carriage control. > How does the data get from server to mf? Then how does it get in JES spool? What's x'8b' Carriage control? That's not an ASCII character. >If I use SDSF to XDC the dataset the x'8b' gets converted to x'F1' > Is the Rexx API an alternative? >I have tried setting the process to use ASCII and UTF-8 when I save the file - >but it becomes garbage rather than the nice text I can see on JES2 > Which "process"? >Is there a process I can use to copy (XDC) or Edit the file and CREATE a file >on >the mainframe Side? > >I may try placing the output in USS and then seeing if I can keep the ASCII >char that way. > Can you view/dump it from an ASCII client? Can you FTP; BINARY; GET it to a UNIX file and inspect/dump that? >Just looking for preventing ASCII chars on MF side from being converted under >SDSF/XDC or SE Edit report and CC - CC and CREATE new file > Is it in a MF data set? What Carriage control according to the RECFM? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
