John McKown wrote: >That's why I want the access method to implement the CCSID conversion,
>along with "tagging" and a DD parameter so that the application receives >the data in the code point it is written to handle. I don't want the >application to have to deal with "metadata", but put it on the back of the >access method; most likely QSAM and BSAM and maybe even VSAM. Much like DB2 >can do some of this. Ah, ok, cool. That would be interesting. Not sure how that relates back to the original problem, which was Skip seeing a "funny" character in a data set. The emulator would then need to communicate with z/OS about code page in use.gets pretty messy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
