Tom Marchant wrote: >Can I get z/OS messages to be issued in Unicode?
And having Bookmanager bookies written in all those codepages? >I could probably ask many more questions like these. >Unless the answer to all of these is "yes", your "absolutely no requirement to >use" is false. True. Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I'm waiting for Timothy's answer and apologia. Or try test TRT for packed / unpacked values. Just remember ASCII numbers (packed) are in hex x'30 - x'3F' and EBCDIC are in x'F0' - x'F9'. >And even there I see biases in string constants coded in programs. >HLASM has EBCDIC self-defining terms, but not ASCII self-defining terms. So I see it too after RTFM. Good catch. >IEBGENER can probably deal with Unicode data set content, but not Unicode data >set names. or try: OCOPY '/SYSTEM/tmp/blahblah.txt' HLQ.DSN.NAME where you specify your folders/filename in Unicode. I will not go on, especially if you add FTP (transfers *with* translation from codepages) in this fray... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
