Well, if you had a 3525 and wanted to print on the output card then the encoding mattered, but only when it was up.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 10:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Punched cards and character set On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 16:19:45 +0200, R.S. wrote: > >Q1: how it was in the past? I mean, were the DD * limited to "punched >card" character set? Or it was always full EBCDIC if the job was read >from DASD? > I believe EBCDIC cards supported the full 256-character set. It was possible to have SYSPUNCH/SYSLIN on card, even DD *. Linkage Editor syntax guaranteed that "//" could not appear in 1-2. >Q2: What about character set on the cards? Was it always one and the >same within S/360 family? I noted there were several character sets, but >as far as I understand those set was for other machines (Remington, >pre-S360 IBM machines, etc.) >Was there any name for card character set? I mean something like "CP >037" or so. > I believe there was only one mapping from punch configurations to EBCDIC octets -- CCSID didn't matter. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
