Peter, Not from what I found. Basically from what I found, the differences are in a half-dozen characters have different representations. The square brackets, exclamation point, cent sign, vertical line, not sign and caret have different representations.
We don't send anything to Europe, just to *ix boxes in house. We discovered the problem when we transferred some data to a *ix box and the company name had an exclamation point in it on the mainframe (code page 37). When it got to the *ix box, the exclamation mark was changed to a right square bracket due to code page 500. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nuttall, Peter (P.) Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: a codepage rant Hi, Not sure about the DB2 default. But isn't codepage 500 for multilingual support. Maybe the MQ system is setup that way deliberately ... (ie. Do you send data to Europe for example) ... Kind regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 15 October 2009 20:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: a codepage rant On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:22:11 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. <[email protected]> wrote: >OK, probably a dumb question but here goes anyway. > >We have z/OS MVS using code page 037 and z/OS UNIX using codepage 1047. >I just came across an issue at our site where we are using MQSeries >(excuse me, WebSphere MQ) to ship data to *nix machines. This issue is >that MQSeries is using by default codepage 500. Why on earth did IBM >decide to throw a third codepage into the mix? AARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! > >There I feel better, now. > ( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
