Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread David Crayford
On 9/2/22 12:48 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... I ran Vim on z/OS. It's part of the Rocket Ported Tools suite. It's uses enhanced ASCII like all of the ported tools. Have you played with Vim ":set fileencoding=..."? It works splendidly on Linux. No need. I'm convinced that ISPF edit does

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:06:32 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >... >I ran Vim on z/OS. It's part of the Rocket Ported Tools suite. It's uses >enhanced ASCII like all of the ported tools. > Have you played with Vim ":set fileencoding=..."? It works splendidly on Linux. -- gil

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:06:32 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >> >> I should have cited the , which shows more: >> >>> >> What did ISPF HEX display show for the "[]"? What codes did >> "od

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread David Crayford
On 9/2/22 9:28 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 08:45:19 +0800, David Crayford wrote: On 8/2/22 11:06 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... The characters are supported in all code pages. They are just in the wrong code-point when translating between IBM-273 and ISO8859-1. I have

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 01:29:55 +, Lloyd Fuller wrote: >The 037 code page square brackets are not ASCII compatible brackets.  That is >part of the reason for 1047. > The ASCII square brackets are 5b 5d. The IBM-1047 square brackets are ad bd. I don't consider that as compatible. How do you

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread Lloyd Fuller
The 037 code page square brackets are not ASCII compatible brackets.  That is part of the reason for 1047. Regards. Lloyd Sent from AT Yahoo Mail for iPad On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 7:45 PM, David Crayford wrote: On 8/2/22 11:06 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>    ... >> The characters are

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 08:45:19 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 8/2/22 11:06 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> ... >>> The characters are supported in all code pages. They are just in the >>> wrong code-point when translating between IBM-273 and ISO8859-1. I have >>> formed the opinion that the ISPF

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-08 Thread David Crayford
On 8/2/22 11:06 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: ... The characters are supported in all code pages. They are just in the wrong code-point when translating between IBM-273 and ISO8859-1. I have formed the opinion that the ISPF editor does no honor code pages and only supports translation between

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 10:28:27 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >... >The characters are supported in all code pages. They are just in the >wrong code-point when translating between IBM-273 and ISO8859-1. I have >formed the opinion that the ISPF editor does no honor code pages >and only supports

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 20:27:07 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 15:23, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> > >> You mean ZTERMCID is 273? Does the ISO8859-1 file contain >> characters with no representation in IBM-273? > >By definition there are no characters in ISO8859-1 that are not in

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-07 Thread David Crayford
On 8/2/22 9:27 am, Tony Harminc wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 15:23, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 03:20:27 +0800, David Crayford wrote: We recently had a problem where a customer using a German codepage (IBM-273) used the ISPF

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 15:23, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 03:20:27 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > > >We recently had a problem where a customer using a German codepage > >(IBM-273) used the ISPF editor to edit a z/OS UNIX file

Re: ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 03:20:27 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >We recently had a problem where a customer using a German codepage >(IBM-273) used the ISPF editor to edit a z/OS UNIX file tagged >ISO8859-1. The ISPF editor translated the file to EBCDIC (don't ask me >why it does that. I much rather it

ISPF edit, file tagging and ASCII conversion

2022-02-07 Thread David Crayford
We recently had a problem where a customer using a German codepage (IBM-273) used the ISPF editor to edit a z/OS UNIX file tagged ISO8859-1. The ISPF editor translated the file to EBCDIC (don't ask me why it does that. I much rather it stay in ASCII). Anyway, it was a YAML document and they