Actually, it looks like there is support to UTF-8: ___________________________________ You need to do two steps to convert ASCII or EBCDIC data to UTF-8:
Use the function NATIONAL-OF to convert the ASCII or EBCDIC string to a national (UTF-16) string. Use the function DISPLAY-OF to convert the national string to UTF-8. ___________________________________ This is from Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Version 5.1 documentation and there is N type. ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
