In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/28/2007
at 06:06 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The transfer scheme maintains the x'05' that was in your file to
>begin with. The problem is perceived on the mainframe side because
>the applications are not written to expand your tab character.
>EBCDIC does know what a x'05' is,
WTF? It's been part of EBCDIC since Old Man Noach cornered the market
in Gopher Wood.
>simple a single character that is not viewable on your 327x terminal
It's a character that has special significance to a 3270; would you
expect, e.g., SF, SBA to be visible?
>Those people using PC programs to create
>mainframe data need a smarter non-mainframe program to insert the
>number of spaces they really wanted or learn to enter spaces when
>they want spaces.
It's hard to imagine a program smart enough to know that the user
wanted spaces. Often the user enters a tab because a tab is what is
required, and replacing it with spaces would break the application.
>We can whine the mainframe does not work like the PC or we can whine
>the PC does not work like the mainframe. Be fair and whine both
>ways.
No; learn enough to understand when whining is inappropriate. In both
directionms.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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