Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:17:07 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: >On 10/14/16 18:50, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> CMS Pipelines (perhaps other CMS utilities) use 0x25 instead of 0x15. >> There's some very Bad History behind all this. > >So you're saying even Hartmann makes mistakes? Shock! :-) > Rather, I'd

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-20 Thread Rick Troth
On 10/14/16 18:50, Paul Gilmartin wrote: CMS Pipelines (perhaps other CMS utilities) use 0x25 instead of 0x15. There's some very Bad History behind all this. So you're saying even Hartmann makes mistakes? Shock! :-) 0x25 is EBCDIC "linefeed". Sadly, that's printable if misinterpreted as

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:24:18 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: > >The advantage in the non-EBCDIC* world is that the lower half of 8-bit >space is rather more consistent. And that space is where we have some >serious trouble on this side of the line (pipe symbol versus >exclamation, square brackets, curly

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-14 Thread Rick Troth
Some history, and some hope. On 10/13/16 16:24, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Hmmm... You asked about Danish, but your Mail Agent seems to be speaking Finnish. :-) The advantage in the non-EBCDIC* world is that the lower half of 8-bit space is rather more consistent. And that space is where we

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:27:28 +, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > ISPF-L, no, MVS-OE list, yes. But since it's often a system wide setting > that IBM may or may not recommend, that’s why I chose IBM-Main first to ask. > It affect the entire machine, not just OMVS guys. >

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-13 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-10-13 o 00:29, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On 2016-10-12 15:20, R.S. wrote: Well, I always use non-US codepage on my 3270 emulator. Reason: I'm Pole, speak Polish, sometimes write Polish naational characters. ;-) Usually I use CP 870, but there is also similar codepage with EURO sign.

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
ssage- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: keskiviikkona 12. lokakuuta 2016 23.28 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047 Should some of this be on ISPF-

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2016-10-12 15:20, R.S. wrote: > > Well, I always use non-US codepage on my 3270 emulator. Reason: I'm Pole, > speak Polish, sometimes write Polish naational characters. ;-) Usually I use > CP 870, but there is also similar codepage with EURO sign. For C programming > I've used to use CP

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-10-12 o 19:26, Lindy Mayfield pisze: Hello, I read in places where IBM gives both pros and cons to running USS with a code page other than 1047, if for example your 3270 terminal emulator is set to Danish. I also find instructions such as this, though I'm not sure if this is

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:26:47 +, Lindy Mayfield wrote: >Hello, > >I read in places where IBM gives both pros and cons to running USS with a code >page other than 1047, if for example your 3270 terminal emulator is set to >Danish. I also find instructions such as this, though I'm not sure

Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hello, I read in places where IBM gives both pros and cons to running USS with a code page other than 1047, if for example your 3270 terminal emulator is set to Danish. I also find instructions such as this, though I'm not sure if this is all that is necessary to switch USS encoding: