Re: Codepage

2018-03-07 Thread Clifford McNeill
ist on behalf of scott Ford Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 12:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Codepage All, This isnt a Java issue see below: Sample program calling EZACICTR with MODE in Table set to SINGLE... CBL NOC(E),FLAG(W),DATA(31),NODYN,RES,RENT,OPT,MAP,NOSSR CBL NO

Re: Codepage

2018-03-07 Thread scott Ford
AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > GX20-0157-2, GX20-1850-3 and GX20-1850-36 have ~ at A1, with an alternate > glyph of degree sign. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ____ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion L

Re: Codepage

2018-03-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Codepage Don't confuse glyphs with code points. ~ is perhaps a delimiter for humans who are perceiving glyphs visually but not for software that is processing code points in binary. It would facilitate clearer thinking to say "we

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
scott Ford wrote: >We are using EZACICTR..we build a message inside our STC and convert EBCDIC >data to ASCII data based on a Parm, I.e.; codepage=uk ...uk is in side the >EZACICTR the entry is selected data converted, then encrypted and a >socket-write issued to a Java server. Part of our mess

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
en? In other words, where in the process does the translation break down? Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 6:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Codepage We are usi

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread scott Ford
> which expects the message to be delimited with x'something'." > > Charles > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:46 AM &

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread Charles Mills
Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Codepage scott Ford wrote: I see that J R replied to you, but I am still really confused about your post. Since this is about code page, I am probably on a different [code] page ... (yes, yes,

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread Ray Pearce
: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Codepage >From an ASCII v EBCDIC standpoint, x'00' is NUL on both sides. Why not use it >as your end of message delimiter. Of course, you haven't given the complete picture. What else is in the message stream? Is it text only?

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
scott Ford wrote: I see that J R replied to you, but I am still really confused about your post. Since this is about code page, I am probably on a different [code] page ... (yes, yes, that was an intended crruel pun and I will not turn a new page, mind you... ;-D ) >I need some help on l

Re: Codepage

2018-03-06 Thread J R
>From an ASCII v EBCDIC standpoint, x'00' is NUL on both sides. Why not use it >as your end of message delimiter. Of course, you haven't given the complete picture. What else is in the message stream? Is it text only? Are there any binary fields included? Control fields? Etc? > On Ma

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:23:05 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >... >I'm not sure whether the text is inspected by WTO or only later by CONSOLE >when displaying on consoles. The later would make sense to me. You want to >avoid that strange things happen when strange data is displayed on terminals >(c

AW: Re: AW: Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Hunkeler
I had a look at manual z/OS V2.1 MVS Assembler Services Guide. It describes the characters "... that will be displayed on the console..." in a table. This tbale contains this table shows a lot of special characters as well as all upper *and* lower case letters. It also say that characters not in

AW: Re: AW: Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>>I doubt this is still correct information. After all, even z/OS base >>components issue WTOs in mixed case. ZFS is one that comes to my mind, and >>I'm pretty sure there are more but I can't name them without looking up. >> >What about WTOR? You mention ZFS (ITYM zFS; they're not the same.) >

Re: AW: Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:04:42 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >>It's worse than that. One may safely use those characters that are called >>in manuals Alphabetic, Numeric, or Special. They're enumerated. all others >>are considered Invalid. Alphabetic does *not* include lower case. > >I doubt thi

AW: Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>It's worse than that. One may safely use those characters that are called >in manuals Alphabetic, Numeric, or Special. They're enumerated. all others >are considered Invalid. Alphabetic does *not* include lower case. I doubt this is still correct information. After all, even z/OS base comp

Re: codepage restrictions on IBM applications

2016-07-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:46:30 -0500, Janet Graff wrote: > >Since WTO is restricted to CP-37 displayable EBCDIC characters this means that >the system console messages, and the job log messages are restricted to >readable EBCDIC characters. That codepage does define accented and >non-English char

Re: codepage restrictions on the system console

2016-07-25 Thread Janet Graff
John, Thanks, I looked up WTO and for the TEXT parameter it says "only standard printable EBCDIC characters are passed to MCS-managed display devices. " Not quite at the codepage level but good enough for me. Janet >On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Janet Graff < >004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...

Re: codepage restrictions on the system console

2016-07-25 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Janet Graff < 004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I have a theory question rather than a how-to-implement question. > > Does anyone know what the codepage restrictions are on the system console? > Can you have a French console and have messages