On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 20:31:40 -0800, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
>I'll qualify, x'ac' is an extended ascii for logical not
> http://www.ascii-code.com
>
That page confirms what the ever-so-pedantic Shmuel asserts: ASCII
is a 7-bit code, and,
The extended ASCII codes (character code 128-255)
There are several different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table. ...
>In any case, I expect circumflex (x'5e') �to translate into logical not or
>circumflex, not to the meaningless comma (x'6b'), which is unfortunately what
>I get. �It seems that there are at least two flavors of the conversion while
>ftping. �One translates logical not correctly to either circumflex or to
>logical not (which I can deal with easily). �The other flavor of ftp
>conversion, prefers to translate it to comma.
>According to
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pcomhelp/v5r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.pcomm.doc/reference/html/hcp_reference27.htm
The solution would to use that flavor of FTP which "... translates logical not
correctly to either
circumflex or to logical not ..."
It appears that whatever process you're using takes the narrow 7-bit
view of ASCII and ignores the high order bit of x'AC", regarding it as
x'2C' and translates that value correctly to comma. I can't tell whether
the problem is in your wc3270 server (would that be IND$FILE?), in
which case you may need to have your administrator configure it for
ISO 8859-1 rather than "ASCII" or in your desktop, in which case you
need to perform a similar operation there.
Alternatively, if wc3270 supports it, transfer the file in BINARY, then
on z/OS use either "dd" or "iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047" to
convert to EBCDIC. Yet another possibility if you have FTP on z/OS
is to work entirely on z/OS with the binary file and do:
FTP localhost
user
password
BINARY
QUOTE TYPE A
PUT ascii.file EBCDIC.FILE
QUIT
-- gil
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