On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 14:16:27 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >I recently ran into a question that I didn’t know the answer to. The >question was, what code page are dataset names and other z/OS artifacts coded >in? Since the special characters like #, $ and @ are different in codepages >1047, versus 037, etc does z/OS use one code page for these artifacts and >translate if a data set is created with JCL created with 1047 and is later >accessed using an 037 code page for instance ? > How would it tell? Would you expect a PRAGMA CCSID on the JOB statement? Or the SUBMIT command recognizing the CCSID of your terminal?
I see no difference among these/ Are there others? 513 $ printf '#$@' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP1047 | od -tx1 0000000 7b 5b 7c 0000003 514 $ printf '#$@' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP037 | od -tx1 0000000 7b 5b 7c 0000003 515 $ printf '#$@' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP500 | od -tx1 0000000 7b 5b 7c 0000003 >I suspect someone out there has experience and knows the answer. > I hate EBCDIC! Why isn't a basic character set invariant!? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
