On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 15:00:21 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >The result is that you will find that many non-US shops use non-US EBCDIC >character sets for theeir TN3270 terminals, and then they use national and >special characters for DSNAMES and symbols in JCL. The catch is that >whatever they use must have hex representations for the supported characters >that match CP-037. > The JCL Ref. cautions: Note: The system recognizes the following hexadecimal representations of the U.S. National characters; @ as X'7C'; $ as X'5B'; and # as X'7B'. In countries other than the U.S., the U.S. National characters represented on terminal keyboards might generate a different hexadecimal representation and cause an error. For example, in some countries the $ character may generate a X'4A'.
Are the 12 "special" characters invariant, or should a similar warning mention them, likewise giving numeric code points? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
