On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:40:01 +0000, Baessler, Derek <[email protected]> wrote:
>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. https://www.windowsdigitals.com/restore-old-notepad-in-windows-11/ -- Dale R. Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
