On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:38:43 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >>> I hate EBCDIC! (Granted in this case it's not bad design but bad luck.) >In CMS I have dealt with this by PIPE ... | E2A | SORT | A2E ... > >With DFSORT you can SORT characters according to the ASCII collating >sequence using the format "AC" > Why is the collating sequence for EN_US radically different from that for EN_CA? Canada is just a step across a border, even though they're suddenly economic adversaries.
>Ofcourse it can also convert EBCDIC characters to ASCII characters using >TRAN=ETOA and ASCII characters to EBCDIC characters using TRAN=ATOE > Which code pages? That was an expedient kludge on CMS. Does DFSORT have a "hex" option? Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
