Ah, yes. With my emulator set to 037 using this trick does make the display look correct. With the 1047 code page, it still looks garbled.
Now why does no combination of the above let my square brackets display correctly?? Ken Klein Sr. Systems Programmer Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance - Louisville kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com 502-495-5000 x7011 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: code page help Klein, Kenneth wrote: > Frank could you briefly expound on what the convert keyword is doing > for you? > > > Ken Klein Here's an experiment from our class "Introduction to z/OS UNIX": 1. Get into omvs without a "convert" operand 2. Issue this (invalid) command id -Gr 3. Examine the result; exit omvs 4. Get into omvs with a "convert((bpxfx111))" operand 5. Issue the same command 6. Compare the results. Kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html