On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:34:07 +0100, Boris Lenz wrote: >On Fri, January 18, 2013 16:20, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Did you specify the same conversion at both ends? E.g.: >> >> quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) >> locsite sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) > >I tried a lot. 'quote' is not necessary I think, when talking to a z/OS host. > Agreed. I tried three different (UNIX) clients and all accepted SITE without QUOTE. I don't recall whether in the past I encountered ond that required QUOTE, or it's used in an example somewhere. Of course, the IETF RFCs don't govern client user interfaces; RFC 959 doesn't even mention QUOTE.
But have you tried both SITE and LOCSITE, with identical arguments, in the same transaction? >Frankly, I don't even understand why there should be a need for any code >page conversion. I don't want to "convert" anything. Surely, I don't want >to convert $ to �, nor $ (x'5B' in IBM-500) to $ (x'4B' in IBM-285). > Me, too. But have you tried EBCDIC; MODE B? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
