W dniu 15.11.2024 o 22:40, Baessler, Derek pisze:
This might be more of a Windows question rather than z/OS, but I'll give it a
shot here.
This deals with transferring some reports on z/OS (stored in DSORG=PS,
RECFM=FBA datasets) to a .txt file on a Windows PC. These datasets have some
x'00' bytes on some lines.
On Windows 10, Notepad is able to open and display the files after transfer. It
seems to ignore the x'00' bytes or just interpret them as spaces, but the rest
of the text in the report is perfectly readable.
On Windows 11, Notepad seems the think the files are encoded in Chinese and
they are not displayable.
We can view the files with Visual Studio Code on both Windows 10 and 11. It
displays NUL where the x'00' bytes are, but they are otherwise readable in both.
We've tried transferring with both SFTP (Tectia) and FTP. We get the same
results with both- the transferred .txt files are readable in Win10 Notepad,
but not Win11.
We couldn't find where to convince Notepad on Win11 to display these correctly.
Has anyone run into something similar or have any ideas?
The customers that are running into this issue aren't IT people and usually
don't have admin rights to install something like VS Code or Notepad++ on their
PCs. So allowing them to continue to use standard Windows Notepad would be
preferable.
Obviously the best thing to do would be to update the program that's writing
these reports on z/OS to not write the x'00' bytes. That program probably
hasn't changed in 20+ years more. We could probably do something with
DFSORT/ICETOOL as well to replace the x'00' bytes with x'40'. But hoping for a
quick setting fix on the Windows 11 side.
IMHO the simplest solution is to fix the report dataset or create custom
translation table for FTP to change X'00' to X'20' (as well as X'40' to
X'20').
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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