z/OS Unicode Services, on which I think all of these CCSID translation implementations are based, fully supports UTF-8 (assuming that's what you mean by Unicode). I use it all the time. Specify CCSID 1028 as the "ASCII" code page.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 4:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CCSID Gil, That would interesting if a 'DD SYSOUT' could do it, hmmm, I think the issue I saw was related to an older PC code page, my guts keep telling this. Guys, I appreciate what you said I want to dig a tad I know there are Unicode APIs ... Regards, Scott On Sunday, June 12, 2016, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:20:15 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: > > > >I have a bigger question, if we wanted to support Unicode (yeah ugh), > >how do I know what CCSIDS to support ? > >For example we go from EBCDIC on z/OS to ASCII and from ASCII to EBCDIC. > Do > >I some how have to tell the target what the sending CCSID is ? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN