On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 18:28:20 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > >I’d say that code pages aren’t particularly relevant to JCL processing. JCL >uses a set of byte values. Most of those byte values have a common >interpretation across many if not most of the code pages in the “EBCDIC” >family. As you noted, all of them have the same interpretation in three >commonly used code pages. > Tunnel vision. They "aren’t particularly relevant" except when they are.
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=parameters-character-sets> prudently warns: (i) 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'. "other than" should be clarified. The most concise way to do that would be with a citation of CP037. It's complicated, but cowardly to ignore the complexity just because it "commonly" can be expected to work. Why is there a CP1047? I've heard it described as a mistake, or "Customer requirement." Was it easier for an AE to accommodate an influential customer than rely on a technical judgment? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
