Re: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-30 Thread scott Ford
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:33 AM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 13:53:11 +0100, Massimo Biancucci wrote: > > > > >If you have DFSORT or similar, you could use TRAN=ATOE. > > > > > Which ASCII? Which EBCDIC? The page at: > > z/OS

Re: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 13:53:11 +0100, Massimo Biancucci wrote: >If you have DFSORT or similar, you could use TRAN=ATOE. > Which ASCII? Which EBCDIC? The page at: z/OS 2.2.0 z/OS DFSORT z/OS DFSORT: Getting Started Learning to write JCL and DFSORT control statements Reformatting records with

Re: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-21 Thread Massimo Biancucci
If you have DFSORT or similar, you could use TRAN=ATOE. Sort utilities usally are very good at I/O and CPU. Regards. Massimo 2016-12-19 16:47 GMT+01:00 Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:35:33 -0600, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > > > >Our

Re: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-19 Thread Bill Woodger
It is built in to lots of places. The idiocy arises (or only should arise) with the idea of transferring of "non-character" data between systems - packed-decimal, binary, even, for supreme idiocy, floating-point - so that a "field-level" translation is required of the "character" data. Then

Re: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-19 Thread Denis
equ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Mon, Dec 19, 2016 4:47 pm Subject: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.) On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:35:33 -0600, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > >Our programmers used to use a cobol to read in a f

Re: ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-19 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:35:33 -0600, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > > > >Our programmers used to use a cobol to read in a file, for ebcdic to > ascii translation, and then this subprogram would

ASCII<->EBCDIC (was: convince programmer something else is better.)

2016-12-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:35:33 -0600, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > >Our programmers used to use a cobol to read in a file, for ebcdic to ascii >translation, and then this subprogram would be called for each record to >convert from ebcdic to ascii. The job steps calling that routine spent over